Aaron Whitlock

The dark doesn't end. It waits. At Bjørnfjord Research Station, the sun vanishes for one hundred and fifty-two days of polar night. Station lead Dagna Vasskog has survived Arctic winters before. She trusts systems, measurements, protocols, and the clean certainty of a written record. But this winter, the data stops behaving. A wolf circles the station. Then three begin appearing at the edge of the floodlights, night after night, always at the same time.
A corridor turns inexplicably cold. Airlock logs show nighttime departures no one can explain. Beneath the station, sensor readings begin tracing a pattern that should not exist. And as the darkness presses in, Dagna's team starts to change in ways that are subtle, measurable, and increasingly terrifying. Told through weather logs, incident reports, surveillance footage, and the unraveling observations of a woman determined to stay rational, The Patience of Wolves is a slow-burn literary horror novel about isolation, dread, and the moment the known world stops being enough.