Thermal Static

Kazimir Vlastev is the Central Steppe Authority’s most relentless enforcer, using psychic suppression fields to neutralize rogue mutants before they ignite unrest. Danika Sretkov is an outlaw plasma-witch whose bio-electric heat can melt tank armor. When an artillery strike derails their express train inside an alpine border tunnel, the sworn enemies find themselves trapped beneath thousands of tons of frozen granite. With temperatures plummeting and rival mercenaries hunting the wreckage, survival requires Danika’s fire and Kazimir’s mental dampening. But holding each other’s powers in check creates a combustible psychic feedback loop, stoking a dangerous, illicit intimacy that could destroy them both if the tunnel doesn't cave in first.