The Scorpion Room

In the middle of a sprawling, merciless desert, a family is torn apart by natural disaster. From the ashes, a hero rises, called upon to save our world. Thousands of miles away in the killing fields of Bosnia, a killer stalks the innocent. His singular purpose: to serve his shadowy organization and their earth-shattering goals. No one knows how much damage a new scientific breakthrough could do to the world order if it fell into the wrong hands, but they plan to find out.

Lily Cienfuentes felt the call to STEM early and as a force of nature herself she harnessed scientific research to break barriers. She's uncovering secrets of our world to try and save us, but what she found instead could cost her everything, including her life.

The Balkan Wars of the 1990’s unleashed genocidal forces of human barbarity unknown in Europe since World War II, exposing Europe’s promise of “Never Again” as an empty gesture. This is the forge of the killer known only as Epp. He is coming.

A science fiction thriller and psychological drama set in a sordid world of the near future, historically accurate settings highlight forgotten conflicts in the heart of Europe. The future of nation-state hostage-taking using new technology reflects the frightening geopolitical reality of our current world. Crime and politics mix to contort climate research into devastating new technologies. The question remaining: who will be left standing in the end?