A book titled 'OCTANE' by M.R. Dollschnieder, displayed alongside a Kindle device and a smartphone, with a scenic landscape of a dirt path and green hills, under a starry sky.

SOME SECRETS ARE BURIED FOR A REASON.

Eva Barton needed a fresh start. Escaping her exhausting teaching job, the single mother moves her two kids and aging father to Octane—an isolated mountain town where her grandfather left them an inherited home.

But Octane isn't just secluded. It’s a prison.

In 1969, something catastrophic changed the town forever. Now, a black-budget government operation has Octane completely cordoned off from the rest of the world. No one gets in. No one gets out. Anyone who tries to cross the perimeter dies.

As the military watches from the shadows, desperate to know if a long-forgotten meteor strike is rewriting the DNA of the remaining residents, Eva realizes they are trapped with an evolving nightmare. The townspeople are changing, the air is thick with secrets, and the government is ready to sanitize the map to keep the truth contained.

With the clock ticking and a terrifying sickness creeping closer to her children, Eva must unearth the town's dark, cosmic origin before it consumes her family.

Welcome to Octane. Population: Doomed.