Description

A quiet New England town goes to sleep in winter and wakes buried past its rooftops beneath a snowfall that defies nature. Doors will not open. Windows are erased. Roads vanish under a dense, compact white that does not drift, melt, or behave like snow at all. Power and communication fail. The town is sealed in silence.

As residents struggle to survive, they discover the rules have changed. Digging sideways is deadly. Heat is dangerous. The snow responds—sealing tunnels, hardening under pressure, adapting to human behavior. Survival becomes vertical, with neighbors cutting upward through attics and roofs to build fragile networks above the buried town.

Help eventually arrives, but it is not rescue—it is management. Unmarked helicopters extract survivors under strict control. Paperwork comes before reunions. Silence is exchanged for safety. The official explanation is simple and comforting: a historic blizzard. The truth is not.

Through an ensemble of survivors—a road supervisor who organizes resistance without rebellion, an ER nurse haunted by the cost of small mistakes, a teenage analyst who learns to recognize deadly patterns, a radio operator whose voice is removed, and distant analysts who see the same event repeating across the globe—the town learns it was never an accident. The snow was the output of a classified military technology designed to weaponize atmospheric conditions themselves.

The town was not the experiment.

It was the calibration point.

As similar "anomalies" quietly appear in other regions, the technology is renamed, normalized, and absorbed into policy. Governments deny specifics. Institutions adapt. The public moves on. The buried town remains sealed beneath a pristine white dome—officially uninhabitable, unofficially erased.

WHITELOCK is a bleak, realistic techno-thriller about modern warfare without explosions, survival without victory, and a future where control no longer falls from the sky as bombs—but as snow, placed precisely where it is allowed to land.