The Lightning Tree

Deep in the Australian outback, a ghost gum tree rises impossibly high—two hundred meters of living wood pulsing with electromagnetic fury, ringed by the skeletal remains of decades of downed aircraft. Bush pilot Jack Donovan crashes into this graveyard alongside geophysicist Priya Sharma and discovers something far more dangerous than the tree itself: a mining corporation bleeding the ancient mineral veins that keep its power in balance. With catastrophic storms spreading across the continent, Jack must trust millennia-old knowledge to prevent a disaster no one else believes is coming.