Red Frontier

By Joshua Shackles

On Mars, every cup of water is counted. Then eight promised ice frames vanish.

Calla Maran can keep almost any machine alive, but Ash Hollow has only six days of water left-and less than three before Commander Dane Rykov arrives to seize the settlement for the Helios Resource Consortium.

An erased signal from beneath Redspire Canyon offers one impossible hope: a buried reserve larger than everything Ash Hollow has received in a decade. Calla launches with Sora, a systems operator who trusts evidence over promises, and Vex, a salvage pilot whose battered skiff is as unreliable as its owner appears.

What they uncover is more dangerous than water: an abandoned terraforming network, proof that Mars's failed transformation was deliberately suppressed, and technology Rykov will kill to control.

With corporate forces closing in and scattered settlements running dry, Calla must do what no repair manual ever taught her-trust other people with work she cannot finish alone. If she fails, Helios will own the frontier's last chance at freedom. If she succeeds, Mars itself may wake.

A standalone, character-driven science-fiction adventure of survival, rebellion, found family, and the people who keep broken worlds running.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F2THQ447
• ISBN13: 9798315888697
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"