Helheim

A frozen world. A disgraced pilot. A secret that refuses to stay buried.

Lieutenant Thomas Pizer is exiled to Helheim, H‑155 on the star charts, because he chooses conscience over orders. Assigned to a one‑man listening post on a planet where winter never ends, he keeps watch over ruins and radio silence while the wind carries rumors and the bones of corporate ambition. When a wounded creature with human eyes and animal claws collapses at his door, Thomas faces a choice that will define him: protect a survivor of the horrors his superiors are paid to enforce, or hand her over and preserve his fragile exile.

CryoGen does not simply fund research. It hires men in uniform to act as a private army, turning corporate profit into battlefield authority. Contracts replace oversight. Classified directives hide transactions. Soldiers who follow orders become instruments of a company's will. Now those buried transactions are bleeding back into the ice.

What follows is a collision of loyalties and consequences. A man punished for mercy. A hybrid survivor whose existence threatens powerful interests. An institution willing to erase them both to protect its crimes. As Thomas and the survivor, Aura, push beyond the listening post into the ice‑scoured wastes and the half‑buried ruins of CryoGen, they discover that the cold preserves more than bodies. It preserves the choices made in the dark, and the price of exposing them may be higher than either can survive.

On a world of endless winter, the warmest thing is a dangerous secret.