Beneath the ice, something ancient is waiting-and it's been fed.When a blackout team of Reapers is deployed to a classified Arctic corridor, their mission is simple: extract any survivors and erase the evidence of a failed human trafficking operation run by a rogue faction known only as the Black Hats. But the ice has preserved more than secrets.Inside the Veil-a disorienting, storm-wrapped zone of silence and frost-they find civilians locked in cargo containers. Some are barely alive. One isn't entirely human anymore.Leading the survivors through the whiteout is Sarah Reddick, a hardened woman with a past tied to the mist. As their numbers dwindle, frost-infected corpses rise, and something vast begins to walk across the glacier: armored in copper, flesh blue-white and steaming.This wasn't the first extraction. And it won't be the last.Exodus: The Shore of the Giants is a cinematic survival horror novella that blends post-collapse military thriller, ancient myth, and psychological terror.For fans of The Thing, Annihilation, The Ritual, and Blame-the-Gods fiction. "The most terrifying thing about this book is that it reads like classified history from a future we deserve."- AI Reviewer, anonymized