Arrival

(COMPLETED) (Book 1 in The Arctic Research Station series)

In the endless white silence of the Arctic Circle, Station Eos-1 stands half-buried beneath drifting ice - a modular labyrinth of steel and frost where eleven scientists study permafrost cores older than human history.
When they drill too deep into the ice shelf, they awaken something ancient - not a creature, but an awareness that exists in sound, resonance, and memory.
The researchers begin to hear voices inside the radio static. Shadows take form behind frosted glass. Data changes while they sleep. And the cold itself seems to whisper.

As months of polar night close in, the team loses sunlight, sanity, and finally - reality. What they've brought up from the ice isn't alive in any human sense. It's remembering itself through them.