Cold Bloom

By: Bailey, John

They found life in the ice. Life that remembers how to end worlds.

When the joint Mars-Earth platform Khepri drills into a shadowed Belt asteroid,
its crew expects ancient ice. What they release is something older-a dormant organism that does not kill its hosts.
It turns them against each other.

Commander Kenji Sato watches his crew fracture along political fault lines.
Biologist Elena Varga recognizes the pattern-and knows she has seen it before, buried in the ruins of a civilization that no longer exists.

The fifth planet didn't break apart. It was driven to destroy itself.

Mars and Earth have always competed. Now they must cooperate-or repeat an extinction that has already happened once.

Cold Bloom is Book Four of The Wheel Cycle-a hard science fiction series
about humanity's expansion into the solar system and the ancient forces
waiting there. Can be read as a standalone thriller.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GPWPMJ9T
• ISBN13: 9798249527884
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"