When the Zorubian fleets step out of the sky, the world doesn't end-it reorganizes. Streets become corridors. Food becomes permission. Power becomes paperwork. And Watchers-perfectly human until the moment they aren't-turn everyday life into a quiet, procedural kind of terror.
In the last dark places left to hide, old legends start walking in formation. Sesqua-the beings mankind called Bigfoot-move through fog-thick forests alongside Native protectors who have guarded them for generations. Above the clouds, Zoruba calls the takeover "stewardship." On the ground, it feels like occupation.
Twenty-three-year-old coder Misty McKirerman won't be processed into the new order. When she and her brother Kevin are taken aboard Fleet Command X-P-2-5-6, they learn the enemy's systems from the inside-and escape with stolen tech, severed tracking, and a target on their backs big enough to be seen from orbit.
Hunted by hard-contact units that can erase distance, Misty and Kevin join forces with a fellow escapee, Liz, and Kablewy-a resistance network stitched together by three tones in the dark and one rule that keeps it alive: never assemble the whole. But as the corridors tighten and the forests become a second battlefield, Kablewy must choose between staying hidden...and becoming organized enough to fight back.
ALIEN-SQUATCH WARS is a cinematic science-fiction thriller with a mystic, epic edge-where invasion is less explosion than administration, and survival depends on discipline, secrecy, and the courage to stay connected when connection is dangerous. The sky is listening. The corridors are closing. And somewhere in the static, three tones keep calling.