Books like The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

On the planet Lagash, a rare celestial event threatens civilization as all six suns set simultaneously for the first time in two millennia, forcing a handful of scientists to confront the world's fragile reality.

A story of power, science, and suspense in a Colorado mansion.

A deadly microorganism terrorizes a space research station, raising questions about the ethics of human presence in space.

In the midst of a California wildfire, former arsonist Andrew Kindler becomes entangled in a murder investigation that forces him to confront his past and solve a crime he knows nothing about.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

After a cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption, life on Earth is devastated—climate shifts, soil turns barren, and technology collapses. In the harsh new world, former officer Colin Ferguson must race against time to save his family and humanity.

A tense interplanetary expedition turns into a race against a cunning killer as scientists hunt an alien species, but the murderer could be a hostile alien—or a colleague.

In "Influx", suppressed technology forces particle physicist Jon Grady to develop a gravity‑reflecting device that attracts a mysterious future organization.