Alien I Am: The Anomaly Files

By David Markham

Book Overview

Emily Rowen has always felt too sensitive for this world-until the night something from beyond it marks her.

The news hurts too much. The grief, the fear, the sense that humanity is quietly driving itself toward disaster-Emily feels all of it like shrapnel. Therapists call it anxiety. Her mother calls it drama. Emily calls it proof that something inside her is broken.

Then the sky turns wrong.

A silent ship appears above her home. A voice enters her mind. And the girl everyone dismissed as too fragile becomes the only one tuned to a signal no one else can hear.

Maybe Emily isn't defective.

Maybe she was chosen.

As alien intelligences move from secrecy toward disclosure, Emily is pulled into a hidden history of abductions, buried memories, and a force powerful enough to burn worlds-or save them. For the first time, she feels the terrible possibility that her life might matter.

But Amanda, her ordinary, infuriatingly human best friend, is unraveling beside her.

If Emily follows the signal, she may finally escape the helplessness that has been eating her alive. If she stays, she may drown in a world already collapsing.

And if she chooses wrong, Amanda may pay the price.

ALIEN I AM is an emotional YA sci-fi thriller about alien contact, loyalty, survival, and the cost of becoming what the universe needs.

For readers who love character-driven first-contact stories, fierce best-friend bonds, found family, climate-collapse tension, and bittersweet hope.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990758761
• ISBN13: 9780990758761
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: David L. Markham
• Length: 476 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"