Jake Frost: Destroyer of the apocalypse

When betrayal costs him everything, including his life, Jake Carlson gets an impossible second chance. In a frozen apocalypse where humanity huddles in underground shelters and frost beasts prowl the surface, Jake has always been the family scapegoat, the adopted son who risks his life for supplies while his stepmother Angela, stepbrother Markus, and ex-girlfriend Hailey take everything and give nothing. When a frost beast attack forces survivors into a sealed shelter, Jake is left outside to die, betrayed by the very people he sacrificed for. As monsters tear him apart, Jake's final thought is a desperate wish: "If only I could go back." Then he wakes up. It's April 4, 2024 three months before the apocalypse begins. Jake remembers everything: the brutal cold, the frost beasts, the betrayals, and most painfully, the death of his childhood friend Jules two weeks into the disaster. Armed with knowledge of what's coming and a mysterious icy power awakening in his chest, Jake has one goal: survive, thrive, and infiltrate the organizations that hold the key to understanding and possibly preventing the apocalypse. His childhood friend Jules works for Nexus Corp, one of the mysterious "Four" companies building high-security shelters across the country. But Jake suspects they know more than they're letting on. To save Jules and uncover the truth, he must get inside Nexus Corp before it's too late. What Jake doesn't know is that deep beneath the earth, a shadowy council controls four ancient sources of power connected to the coming disaster an event they call "The Rupture." These sources are destabilizing, and the council is racing to complete "Phase One" before everything collapses. But something has shifted in the balance. An anomaly. An energy disturbance that occurred exactly when Jake returned to the past. As Jake fights to reclaim his father's stolen hotel empire, outmaneuver his treacherous family, and infiltrate Nexus Corp, powerful forces are beginning to notice him. The council monitors their sources obsessively, and any disruption could expose their carefully laid plans or doom the world before Jake can save anyone. Jake knows when the world will end. What he doesn't know is that his second chance may have already set forces in motion that no one can control.