Haven (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798316699230)

The new world they crossed the stars to claim was never empty.

It sees in warmth. It wears the land like a second skin. And it is already inside the perimeter.

Book One of The Origo Saga.

Earth is finished. Twenty years after the last world war salted the soil and burned the sky, the air is thinning and the water is running out. So humanity makes its final gamble: a colony fleet, launched toward Origo, an Earth-twin hanging blue and green in the dark. A last clean breath for a species choking on its own ashes.

Sergeant Nick Snow and Alpha Squad drop first. Thermal optics, breaching charges, interlocking fields of fire, the orders are simple. Secure the ground. Raise the bases. Keep the colonists breathing long enough to plant a flag and a future. And Origo gives them everything the briefings promised. Open water. Living soil. A paradise after a generation of ration cards and radiation counts.

It is too quiet. The forests do not move right. The silence feels like something holding its breath.

Then the colonists start vanishing.

No bodies. No blood. No sign of a struggle, only empty bunks where laughter used to be. The orbital arrays read heat blooming in places nothing living should be, signatures that flare and then simply stop existing. Whatever hunts the colony never shows itself. It hunts by warmth, so it learns Snow's own thermal scopes faster than his soldiers do, and it turns their advantage into a target. They are looking straight at it and seeing empty ground.

Snow has trained his whole life to fight an enemy he can see. This one watches from arm's reach and leaves nothing behind.

As the body count climbs and the bases fall quiet one by one, Snow begins to suspect the truth no soldier wants to say out loud: the colony was never meant to thrive. Someone back home knew Origo was not empty. Someone sent these people anyway. The mission is a lie wearing the shape of hope, and the soldiers carrying it were never pioneers.

They are bait.

Caught between a predator that cannot be tracked and commanders who count their own people as expendable, Snow has only his squad, a lieutenant named Sierra Flores he is learning he cannot afford to lose, and a single thread of truth on a planet built to swallow them whole.

The first night on Origo, they thought they had survived the hard part.

They had not even met the enemy yet.

HAVEN is the opening novel of The Origo Saga, a military survival science fiction series for readers who want competent soldiers, an unseen enemy, a conspiracy that reaches all the way back to a dying Earth, and dread you can feel in the dark.

Contains graphic violence and strong language. A slow-burn romantic subplot runs through the series; on-page romance is fade-to-black.

Boots hit the ground. Begin the descent.

Author: P. T. French
ISBN-13: 9798316699230
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2025
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d