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What if alien abductions weren’t an invasion… but a calling?

In the dying West Texas town of Perdition Creek, people don’t vanish quietly.

They disappear in bursts of impossible light—red, green, and gold geometries that bend the sky, rewrite physics, and leave behind families shattered by unanswered questions. Fathers vanish from dinner tables. Teenagers are erased mid-sentence. Entire lives end between one heartbeat and the next.

Sheriff Ezekiel Carthage has spent his career dealing with drought, decline, and despair—but nothing prepares him for a mystery that refuses to stay grounded in reality. As federal agencies descend, explanations collapse. Patterns emerge. And one truth becomes unavoidable: the disappearances are not random.

Across the void, beneath the lethal surface of Venus, the abducted awaken in a civilization humanity was never meant to find.

The Venusians are ancient, immortal, and dying—not from war or catastrophe, but from perfection. They have optimized themselves into emotional extinction, eliminating art, love, faith, and joy in the name of logic. Now, facing their own quiet end, they turn to humanity as an experiment… and a last hope.

Among the taken is Jonas Pemberton, a petroleum engineer who never believed in miracles. Thrust into an underground alien city where mathematics replaces emotion and survival has erased meaning, Jonas and the other abductees discover why they were chosen: not for their intelligence, but for their irrational humanity.

Their memories.
Their grief.
Their capacity for love, tradition, and celebration.

As Christmas approaches on Earth, something extraordinary begins beneath Venus’s surface. Humans teach aliens how to feel. How to hope. How to celebrate life precisely because it ends. And slowly, terrifying abductions give way to a radical transformation—one that could redefine two species forever.

But on Earth, families are still waiting. Watching the skies. And wondering whether the lights that took their loved ones will ever bring them home.

The Texas Alien Abductions is a haunting, emotionally charged science fiction novel about loss, wonder, and the dangerous beauty of hope. Blending cosmic horror with human warmth, it asks a timeless question in an infinite universe:

What makes life worth living—and who gets to decide?

For readers who love thoughtful sci-fi, philosophical first contact stories, and narratives where terror slowly gives way to transcendence.

By Nick Razer.