The Door in Dark: Book 2 of Last Shift

The Last Shift is a military-inflected cosmic horror science fiction series about humanity's first true encounter with the unknown - and the terrible cost of being noticed. When the sky changes and Earth's magnetic field begins to fail, civilization fractures under the pressure of a phenomenon no government, scientist, or soldier fully understands. What begins as a planetary survival crisis soon becomes something far more unsettling: evidence that humanity may not be alone, and that the universe is not empty, kind, or waiting patiently for us to understand it. Across safe zones, observatories, war rooms, shelters, oceans, and ruined cities, ordinary people and exhausted leaders fight to preserve what remains of civilization while children sense patterns adults cannot explain. Soldiers hold the line. Scientists search for answers. Families cling to one another in the dark. And somewhere beyond everything humanity has ever reached, something listens. Blending post-collapse survival, modern military tension, cosmic dread, family stakes, and philosophical science fiction, The Last Shift asks one terrifying question: What happens when humanity finally realizes the dark was never empty?

Pages: 368, Paperback, Independently published