Yosemite Burning

A Jack Harlan Techno Thriller

He was the last ranger of a forgotten Yosemite. Now he's a trespasser in his own home.

Jack Harlan lives in the shadow of the fortress that was once his sanctuary. A decade after the nation’s debt forced the sale of its parklands, Yosemite is a privately-owned testbed for OmniCorp’s autonomous drones and cybernetic predators. For Jack, it's a constant, humming reminder of all he has lost.

An old friend, a ghost from a twenty-year-old mistake, shows up with a desperate proposition: one last heist to retrieve millions in uncut diamonds hidden deep inside the park’s high country. To reclaim his past, Jack must survive a future he never imagined, navigating a landscape where the animals are not just wild, but weaponized.

Hunted by a relentless corporate security force and stalked by an invisible predator engineered in a lab, Jack’s wilderness skills are pushed to the absolute limit. But as the mission unravels into a brutal fight for survival, he discovers the park's deadliest hunter might not be a machine, but the man walking beside him.