Cold Eternity

Halley Zwick used to work as a political aide. Then she learned something she was never meant to know, and the people she worked for now want her silenced. She needs a place where no one will think to look.

She finds it on the Elysium Fields, a decommissioned space liner she once toured on a school trip. The ship now holds thousands of frozen bodies, owned by people rich enough to bet on a resurrection technology that never worked. Halley takes an illegal job as caretaker, which means walking the corridors, checking the pods and keeping the systems running.

She is not quite alone. The ship's holograms, the children of its long-dead founder, still greet visitors who never arrive. The only other person aboard is a mechanic who does not like questions.

Then Halley begins to hear something moving behind the bulkheads. The holograms start urging her to leave.

This is science fiction horror with a closed, claustrophobic setting: a dead ship, a very small cast and a presence that has been waiting aboard for a long time. The dread builds from isolation and unexplained sounds rather than from crowds or open spaces. It shares an author with Dead Silence and Ghost Station.