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White Smoke Station
Paperback
Series: The Shadow Protocols, Book 7
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 15 2025
Pages: 436
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A passenger train enters the Alaska dark with five cars.
Only two come out.
When a red engine rolls into White Smoke Station without its rear coaches, investigator Cass Mercer is called into a scene no one can explain. The front passengers are alive, shaken, and packed into a warming tent. The tracks behind them are clean. No wreckage. No bodies. No signal. No fire.
Just three missing cars, a wall of white smoke, and a tunnel that should have been empty.
Cass has worked bad scenes before. She knows how disasters leave evidence. Bent metal. Broken glass. Blood. A path. But this place gives her something worse than damage: absence. The mountain seems to have taken the missing passengers whole.
Then the town's systems begin to fail.
Radios fracture into static. Weather reports stop making sense. A strange fog crawls low through the streets. Families are ordered into shelters, officials argue over evacuation, and a powerful corporate contractor wants the site locked down before Cass can understand what happened. Every answer points deeper into a network of sealed infrastructure, buried records, hidden experiments, and old decisions someone has spent years trying to keep frozen.
Cass is not alone. Gabe, a sharp-edged ally with his own scars, helps her follow the evidence into the mountain. Together, they uncover signs that the missing train is only the beginning. Another group is gone. A second list of names waits in the dark. And somewhere beneath White Smoke Station, a machine built to measure pressure may have opened something no one can fully control.
The deeper Cass digs, the clearer the threat becomes:
- A vanished train with no crash site
- A town trapped between evacuation and containment
- A corporate cover-up buried beneath the ice
- A dangerous phenomenon spreading through fog, sound, and pressure
- A personal clue tied to someone Cass may not be ready to face
- A final choice between sealing the truth away or bringing it into the light
White Smoke Station is a tense, atmospheric thriller about missing people, buried guilt, and the cost of survival when the official story is a lie.
Cass can still save the living.
But the mountain has already learned how to keep the dead quiet.
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