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Cold War
Series · 4 books · 2017-2019

Books in series

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The Needle

2017

1 hour 45 mins The Needle is an action-packed first contact story that shares the battle for Earth through two soldiers' eyes. Josef is having nightmares about the alien tower that dominates the snowy landscape of Antarctica. The alien construct is turning Earth into an icy wasteland, day by day. His world unravels further when the alien tower opens to reveal its occupants. Keenan is the right guy in the wrong place. He will lead his pack of Union Wolves on the world's first mission to combat the aliens and find out if humanity has the strength to repel the invasion. The Ringhead aliens have arrived, and they are xenoforming the Earth, sending mankind towards a new Ice Age. Read this first contact story that kicks off the Cold War. Other Books in the Cold War series: COLD WAR: Alien Incursion COLD WAR: Alien Siege COLD WAR: Alien Strike COLD WAR: Exile (Coming Soon!)
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Alien Incursion

2017

Earth 2110. War with the Ringhead aliens has been raging across the coldest reaches of Earth for two years. The aliens have one weakness–heat. Humanity has retreated to warmer regions of the world for safety. Cam and her team of private soldiers investigate a massacre in the United States green zone. What she finds changes the face of the war. Outmatched and outnumbered, her team must contend with newly fortified aliens, rescue the survivors, and survive the confrontation. The fight will change Cam in ways that will force her to choose between losing her humanity, and saving the human race. Cold War: Alien Incursion is a futuristic sci-fi action adventure that chronicles the vast and bloody battles following humanity’s battle for survival and the planet Earth.
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Alien Storm

2019

They invaded her planet. They ambushed her unit. They’ll have to pry Earth from her cold, dead hands… When Lieutenant Cam Alvarez is called to investigate a desert massacre in the US Green Zone, she prepares for the worst. Once her team of soldiers arrives on the scene, she realizes the violence wasn’t committed by human hands. Alien invaders already dominate Earth’s expanding polar regions, but Cam had never seen Ringheads survive exposure to heat… until they storm her troops and abduct her. On board the alien mothership, Cam knows she alone can warn the human resistance about the catastrophic new threat. Subjected to cruel experiments, she fights for control as the Ringheads slowly strip away her humanity. Against impossible odds, Cam must escape her captors and make an unthinkable sacrifice to give humanity one last shot at survival. Cold War: Alien Storm is a captivating military sci-fi novel. If you like tough-as-nails soldiers, alien abductions, and near-future ecological thrillers, then you’ll love Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle’s fast-paced adventure. Cold War: Alien Storm collects Cold War: Alien Incursion, Alien Siege, and Alien Strike into one satisfying and immersive read. Buy Cold War: Alien Storm to bundle up for a subzero battlefront today!
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Alien Exile

2019

The thrilling conclusion to the Cold War series! Alien DNA infected her body. But will her dual nature be the only thing that saves her snow-encrusted world? Cam Alvarez still clings to her last shred of humanity. Desperate to keep the rescued alien hybrids alive in her remote polar exile, she struggles with failing stasis tubes and subzero Arctic conditions. But she questions her compassion when the Ringhead hive queen she imprisoned escapes and rains down terror on Earth. As the alien Mother maneuvers towards Alvarez’s old base, she’s torn between her duty to protect her former soldiers, and the needs of her defenseless charges facing an icy demise. But with alien zombie hordes surging, she may have no choice but to embrace her hated genetic powers to save Earth… Will Lieutenant Alvarez defeat the powerful invaders before they twist her planet into a frozen graveyard? Cold War: Alien Exile is the second book in a riveting military sci-fi series. If you like determined heroines, futuristic battles, and page-turning tension, then you’ll love Julia Vee’s thrilling novel. Buy Cold War: Alien Exile to turn up the heat on a fast-paced adventure today!

Authors

Ken Bebelle
Ken Bebelle
Author · 12 books

Ken Bebelle has been an avid reader of fantasy, science fiction, and comic books his entire life. His first foray into writing was in the eighth grade with a sword and sorcery fantasy story stored on a 5.25” floppy disk. Ken and his co-author, Julia Vee, recently finished Ebony Gate, an Asian-inspired contemporary fantasy set in the Pacific Rim. Ebony Gate was acquired by Claire Eddy at TOR and will debut in summer 2023 as the first in a trilogy. Ken and Julia have also self-published another series, Seattle Slayers, an urban fantasy set in a post-apocalyptic Seattle. In his spare time, Ken is married, has two grown children, ponders the cyberpunk novel that he has yet to write, and tries to grow tomatoes in his meager backyard.

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