Global Cooling

About This Audiobook

In *Global Cooling*, Jason Ayres crafts a climate-ravaged romance that’s equally heart-pounding and heartbreaking. When an asteroid strike plunges Earth into a prolonged ice age, survivors band together in a brutal new world—where love might be the only thing that doesn’t freeze over. The story follows Dr. Mara Voss, a climatologist struggling to outrun the cold, and Kai Mercer, a rogue time traveler who claims he can stop the disaster. Their chemistry crackles from the first chapter, but the real magic lies in Ayres’ worldbuilding: think *The Last of Us* meets *Annihilation*, with a dash of *The Time Traveler’s Wife*’s emotional gut-punch. The pacing never lags, even as the stakes spiral into existential dread.

What sets this apart is its unflinching look at human resilience in the face of extinction. Ayres avoids the usual dystopian tropes—no over-the-top villains, no easy fixes—just raw, intimate survival. The audiobook’s narration by Ian Pringle elevates every moment: his voice carries the weight of exhaustion in Mara’s internal monologues and the quiet intensity of Kai’s time-slip desperation. If you crave romance with teeth, where love isn’t a distraction from the apocalypse but its only antidote, this is your next listen.