Cold Eternity - S.A. Barnes

From the Queen of Space Horror comes a terrifying, dread-filled nightmare perfect for fans of Ridley Scott''s Alien franchise.

''The S.A. Barnes Creature Feature we''ve all been waiting for! Tense, nasty, and melancholic'' Caitlin Starling
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Desperation for eternal life can lead to a fate worse than death...

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: Elysian Fields, a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago…

The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram ''hosts'', ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.

It’s not long before Halley realises she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from….
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Praise for Cold Eternity

''So well done and creepy, with a twist that will shock you!'' Hildur Knútsdóttir
''Cements S.A. Barnes''s already impressive reputation as Queen of Space Horror'' Ally Wilkes
''You''ll want to read this one with the lights on'' Katee Robert, bestselling author of the Dark Olympus series

From the Queen of Space Horror comes a terrifying, dread-filled nightmare perfect for fans of Ridley Scott's Alien franchise.

'This slice of space horror will be just the ticket for the Halloween season' New Scientist, best new science fiction books of October
'So well done and creepy, with a twist that will shock you!' Hildur Kn tsd ttir
'The S.A. Barnes Creature Feature we've all been waiting for! Tense, nasty, and melancholic' Caitlin Starling
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Halley Zwick is on the run.

Exposing an interplanetary conspiracy should have brought justice. Instead, it s brought Halley nothing but a target on her back. With nowhere left to turn, she boards a relic of the past: Elysian Fields, a drifting crypt in deep space.

Once hailed as humanity s answer to death itself, Elysian Fields was trillionaire Zale Winfield s promise to Earth s elite cryo-sleep until medicine caught up with mortality. But that future never came. The program was abandoned. The barge has floated dark and silent for over a century.

Or so Halley thought.

The moment she steps aboard, something feels wrong. The silence isn t empty it s watching. Shadows fall across corridors. Scratching claws echo in the vents. Whispers bleed from the walls. Something is crawling, slithering, waking.

As Halley descends into the heart of the ship, paranoia blurs into terror. The Elysian dead may not be sleeping and what woke them is hungry...
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Readers love Cold Eternity

'The best Barnes book yet'
'Just the right amount of horror'
'Creepy and atmospheric'
'I was on the edge at all times'
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