Almost Haven

Almost Haven

Clinton White

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Editorial:
Clint White
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9798997549701
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Deep beneath the mountains of West Virginia, something impossible has been waiting.The old coal town of Hewett has learned to live with things disappearing. Mines close. Jobs vanish. Equipment is hauled away. Mountains that once provided a living slowly fall silent.Then a strange hum begins beneath the ground.Retired coal miner Jim Garrett knows these mountains better than most, and he knows when something doesn’t belong. When he joins geologist Melanie Bell and structural engineer Daniel Coulter in searching for the source, their investigation leads them to an abandoned coal mine, and to something hidden far beyond anything they expected to find.Behind a sealed entrance lies a vast underground complex built in secrecy: advanced laboratories, artificial environments, robotics, medical technology, and systems designed for a purpose that reaches far beyond West Virginia.Its creator is Laika Heim, a reclusive billionaire whose ambitions have remained hidden from the world. What began beneath an Appalachian mountain soon becomes connected to a much larger vision-one involving new technologies, unexpected medical discoveries, and humanity’s next steps toward the Moon and Mars.But discoveries this important have consequences, and the people who uncover Almost Haven must decide how much the world should know, whom they can trust, and whether some secrets can remain buried once the future comes looking for them.Almost Haven is a clean, character-driven near-future science fiction adventure blending Appalachian heritage, engineering, medicine, space exploration, mystery, and plausible emerging technology.No aliens. No monsters. No paranormal forces.Just ordinary people standing at the edge of extraordinary possibilities, and a future that may be closer than anyone thinks.Beneath the Mountains, Beyond Imagination.

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