Ghost Town on Mars

Mars is the last frontier humanity never meant to settle.
When Earth's climate courts ran out of prisons, they created a quieter punishment: Permanent Transportation. Criminals, dissidents, and the unwanted were exiled to Mars with no return ships and no second chances.
Decades later the exiles have built a harsh but stubborn civilization across the red deserts. Dome towns cling to life. Caravan routes stretch across deadly wilderness. Oxygen is currency. Water is power. Law exists only where someone is strong enough to defend it.
Calder Rook once served as a marshal on Earth.
Now he survives on Mars as a tracer-tracking missing caravans and lost travelers between settlements.
When a supply convoy disappears near the valley town of Brimstone Vale, Calder accepts a simple contract to find out why.
What he finds instead is a ghost town.
Buildings untouched. Meals still warm. Not a single person left behind.
It is the first sign of a mystery that stretches across the entire planet.
As Calder searches for answers, he becomes caught between two enemies who could destroy everything the exiles have built.
Silas Kreed, a brutal warlord who seeks to dominate Mars by controlling its oxygen trade.
And Dr. Isela Vorn, a brilliant terraforming architect whose secret experiments are capable of folding space itself to reshape the Martian atmosphere.
But the truth may be stranger than either of them imagined.
Because the experiments meant to tame Mars may have awakened something within the planet itself.
With settlements vanishing, war spreading across the frontier, and the fragile future of Mars hanging in the balance, Calder must decide whether to remain a survivor drifting between towns...
Or become the lawman the frontier desperately needs.
Ghost Town on Mars is a sweeping science-fiction western filled with mystery, survival, and the birth of a new civilization on the most dangerous frontier humanity has ever known.
Perfect for readers who love:
• Space westerns
• frontier survival stories
• planetary science fiction
• ensemble casts
• mysteries that reshape entire worlds