Bright Angel

COLD COMFORT

By the mid-twenty-first century, Earth had thought that its environmental problems were behind it—until global temperatures began to plummet, seemingly without cause. And when science could find no solution to the planet's precipitous slide into a new ice age, international tension mounted until the world stood at the brink of war.

For James Harris, the disaster was like déjà vu. Years earlier, he had been one of the colonists sent to the planet Comfort, a paradise world that without warning had become a frozen wasteland, wiping out every colonist, man, woman, and child—except for Harris. Somehow, he had been transported across the light-years back to Earth by an entity he called the Angel.

With the Angel's help, Harris had dealt with his survivor's guilt and pulled his life back together. But as the icy nightmare threatened to repeat itself on Earth, Harris knew that he was somehow responsible. His only hope was that his ghostly savior could rescue his homeworld, but when he needed it most, his bright Angel had disappeared...