Bold North

It’s in the early days of 2019 Minnesota’s faced with a problem they’ve never seen before: an alien invasion. It’s an invasion that would have been devastating to Minnesota—and the rest of America—because the invaders are violent and efficient; they’ve arrived with concrete plans. However, those plans are foiled by the one thing they weren’t expecting: A Minnesotan winter. As a species not designed to withstand such cold and climate, the aliens are forced to retreat in their ships and hunker down to wait for warmer months. Or until Minnesota finds a way to get rid of them.

Janna Svensen, a junior in high school, already has enough on her plate when the aliens arrive and believes Minnesota does, too. For the last seven years, the lakes have been dying from an unknown cause. Now, in 2019, the lakes are all but dead. She works at her father’s environmental lab, trying to help figure out a solution to this catastrophe. It’s a challenge like no other, made more so by the fact that, around the time the lakes started dying, her father went missing. No one knows where he went. No one’s seen him since. It’s another mystery Janna wishes she could figure out.

And then Janna can’t help but get involved with the invasion issue when one of those aliens arrives on her street. She’s not about to let anyone freeze on her doorstep, but what’s going to happen now when letting an alien into her house is dangerous? How could anything good come out of it when Ryan, the irritating son of rival lab owners, quickly becomes involved, too? These questions—and many more—pile up as Janna struggles to understand how she has any power to find answers to it all.