Absolute Zero Anchorage

I always played the ditz at the Oskola Shipping Syndicate. I brought pastries, giggled at the managers' bad jokes, and never complained. But my act cracked the night I stood at the deathbed of Dr. Kestrin Yul, a disgraced oceanographer who shoved a decrypted drive into my hands. His data proved a hyper-thermic collapse was hours away, destined to plunge our coastal town into a lethal deep-freeze. When I warned my office the next morning, they laughed me out of the breakroom. So, I went back to smiling, brewed the coffee, and secretly forged manifests to divert insulated cargo pods and a military thermal-core to an abandoned lighthouse. The very next day, the ocean flash-froze, crushing ships like glass and trapping the town in -80 degrees. Now, the coworkers who mocked me are begging at my reinforced steel doors. I have to fight off ice-crazed scavengers, negotiate with my fiercely competent rival Maris, and decide who gets a spot by the fire. But with a trusted friend quietly sabotaging our defenses from the inside, who can you trust when the world freezes over?