Remembering only fragments—a ruined forest, a static-filled radio, a haunting corpse he can no longer name. Strange messages from a neighboring lookout which always seem to call in at just the right time.

Then the Storm. The fire. The crash. The blackout.

Now living in a fractured Seattle, still recovering from geomagnetic and existential catastrophe, Riley Averesch still hasn’t finished the novel he set out to write as a fire lookout years ago.

With the help of a field researcher chasing strange frequencies, he sorts through missing pages of past to weave together threads of mystery—memory, truth, loss, connection. A seemingly impossible tale of a seemingly impossible man—Riley will soon discover what it truly means to be a Lookout.

A haunting literary debut that blends wilderness survival with metaphysical mystery, LOOKOUT explores the uncharted terrain and resounding steadfastness of human connection in our most isolated and desolate moments.

Genre: Speculative fiction, wilderness adventure
For fans of: The Overstory, Firewatch, Station Eleven
~85,000 words