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AnkitSaxena

Stories about ordinary people pushed to extraordinary choices — fast, dark, and character-driven.

Out July 28
Miner Town: Awakening cover
The New Book.
Miner Town · Book One

Miner Town: Awakening cover
Releasing July 28, 2026

Miner Town: Awakening

Young-Adult Dystopian · Book One

The dead cities burn so the Trinity stays warm.

Down in the shafts of Miner Town, kids like Gage are fed to the dark and forgotten — until the machine that runs his world starts to wake. And so does he.

With his sharp-eyed sister Camilla, the immovable Otto, and Ben — the one who keeps them whole — Gage uncovers what the Trinity buried beneath Sector-1: a truth worth dying for, and a sacrifice that will cost them more.

For readers of The Hunger Games, Scythe, and Maze Runner.

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From the dark of Miner Town to the warmth of home.
The Close Encounters Series.
A Parenting Series · Three Books

A warm, honest, and often funny look at the real adventure of raising children — the small, humbling close encounters of parenting.

About the Author.

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Ankit Saxena writes across two very different worlds: the warm, honest territory of parenting in his Close Encounters series, and dark, character-driven dystopia in the new Miner Town series — which begins with Miner Town: Awakening, set in a world that burns its own dead cities for fuel.

Nashville, Tennessee

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