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Cold Blood Stay Cold. Stay Hidden. Stay Alive.
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Lantern House
Published: Mar 29 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
At three o'clock on an ordinary afternoon, Britain goes dark.
Phones die. Cars stall. Traffic lights fail. Trains stop where they stand. Across Birmingham, the city falls into a silence so complete it feels unnatural.
Then the ground opens.
From beneath the streets rise towering machines built to hunt the warm. Fast, unnatural, and merciless, they move through the broken city harvesting the living while a red alien growth spreads through roads, buildings, and canals, poisoning the land itself.
Kade is a paramedic, exhausted, practical, and already carrying more guilt than he knows how to bear. When the blackout begins, he has no weapon, no answers, and no way to call the one person he needs to reach most. His daughter is on the other side of a dying city, and every mile between them is turning into a killing ground.
To survive, Kade must learn a brutal new rule.
Stay cold.
Stay hidden.
Stay alive.
As Birmingham collapses into fear, silence, and red mist, Kade is forced into a desperate journey through a deadened Britain where heat means death, trust is fragile, and love may be the only thing stronger than terror.
COLD BLOOD is a dark, cinematic survival thriller filled with dread, emotion, and relentless tension. It is a haunting vision of invasion, collapse, and the savage cost of trying to remain human when the world has already begun to feed.
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