Emergence

An Apocalyptic Alien Invasion (Command & Control, Book 1)

By: JK Franks

Narrated by: Steven Varnum

The Truth Was Always There

Deep in the icy black of the North Atlantic, a state-of-the-art submersible makes a chilling discovery—a metallic object slicing through the water with impossible speed and precision. Moments later, systems fail, lights die, and terror takes hold. On Mars, a European rover transmits the image of a stone—etched with unknown symbols—just before vanishing from the data grid. Entire neighborhoods in Nevada disappear without a trace. And in the French Alps, a champion cyclist vanishes mid-race, his GPS pinging him thousands of miles away—then gone.

Across the globe, scattered anomalies start to form a deadly pattern. Astrophysicist Dr. Kaden Trembley has spent his career chasing patterns like these, ridiculed for suggesting intelligent life might already be watching us. But now, something has shifted. They're not just watching anymore.

As covert black-ops teams scramble to bury the truth and governments twist themselves into knots to avoid panic, whispers of alien contacts rise to a fever pitch. With global infrastructures flickering, and trust in authority crumbling, Kaden and his new allies must untangle a trail of evidence stretching from deep space to the halls of power in Washington—before the next phase begins.

From a secretive prepper enclave in the Ozarks to the heart of the Oval Office, Emergence is a brutal, unrelenting sci-fi thriller that rips the lid off the greatest conspiracy of all time. What if aliens weren’t coming… because they never left?

Humanity’s reckoning has arrived—and survival might depend on who is best prepared for the truth.

©2025 JK Franks Media, LLC (P)2025 JK Franks Media, LLC

Pretty interesting

Thanks for a good free book will definitely get the next one. So the aliens are way ahead of us. So if in the next book we catch up with the aliens then it will be crap. So hopefully humans stay doomed.

A hard listen

I was a hard listen, very repetitive with the details, plus the side stories kept me wondering why they were needed because when I got to the end, I was more confused. It took too long to get to the point on some topics I was fast-forwarding just move the story along, I feel it could have been better with the right editor or proofreader. Don't get me started on the narrator, find a deferent one please. To nasally.

Fantastic

This was definitely at the top of my list recommendations and to think it was a free book. I’m looking forward to the next installment. The book was well thought out and written and has much promise to come. Give it a try. It won’t disappoint.

The author’s imagination

I enjoyed the story and the fear that the author was able to generate in the reader.