The world didn’t fall when the Monoliths arrived. It changed—and the transformation is accelerating. Megan Ryan has survived the impossible: hiding in an attic while her infected father prowled below, escaping into a world where even the wildlife is turning predatory, and learning to trust Vincent, a wounded Marine with ghosts of his own. Together, they’ve found temporary shelter—but nowhere is safe for long. The mutants roaming the landscape aren’t slowing down. They’re evolving. What were once mindless, rampaging creatures now stalk, flank, and problem-solve. Some are intelligent enough to coordinate. Others are becoming something dangerously new. Driven by a need for answers and haunted by what they’ve seen, Megan and Vincent push north. Their destination: a remote research facility in the Yukon, the heart of Operation Frostbite, where the first Monolith, far larger and far more active than the one in Colorado looms over a landscape already being rewritten. The further they travel, the more undeniable the truth becomes— the Monoliths aren’t done. The mutations aren’t random. And the world isn’t being reshaped by accident. Whether they like the answers waiting in the cold is another matter entirely. Grim, tense, and unflinching, Prevailing Dread continues the Dread Saga with escalating mutation, found-family bonds, and a journey into the epicenter of a planetary transformation.