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Invasion Earth #1
Arrival
A simple touch is all it takes.
On a quiet spring night in the sleepy village of Vesta, something impossible begins.
A meteor falls from the sky. Strange behavior spreads through the streets. Friends and neighbors start to seem… different. Not quite themselves. Subtly. Almost imperceptibly.
What starts as unease soon becomes terror as an invisible force takes hold — one that replaces people with something cold, relentless, and utterly without mercy.
In a world where no one can be trusted, Harry and those he loves must fight to survive an enemy that looks exactly like the people they once knew.
Book One of the Invasion Earth Trilogy
On a quiet spring night in the sleepy village of Vesta, something impossible begins.
A meteor falls from the sky. Strange behavior spreads through the streets. Friends and neighbors start to seem… different. Not quite themselves. Subtly. Almost imperceptibly.
What starts as unease soon becomes terror as an invisible force takes hold — one that replaces people with something cold, relentless, and utterly without mercy.
In a world where no one can be trusted, Harry and those he loves must fight to survive an enemy that looks exactly like the people they once knew.
Book One of the Invasion Earth Trilogy
- GenresHorrorScience Fiction
386 pages, Paperback
Published May 30, 2026
About the author
Nick Belhomme
4 books11 followersNick Belhomme writes dark science-fiction horror about infection, identity, and the fragile boundary between human and other. His Invasion Earth trilogy grew from a lifelong fascination with the strange, the unsettling, and the possibility that first contact might arrive in a form no one expects.
As a teenager, Nick spent countless hours with the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark games, while films such as E.T., Labyrinth, and The Goonies fed a love of stories in which ordinary people stumble into worlds that are much bigger—and stranger—than they imagined.
Later, that fascination took a darker turn. Stories such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Puppet Masters stayed with him, but they also left him with a question he could never quite shake: if an alien organism wanted to spread across Earth, why would it infect only humans?
Animals, he thought, would make far better vectors. They move unnoticed through forests, gardens, sewers, fields, and homes. A person acting strangely draws attention. A bird, a rat, a deer, or a dog usually doesn't. If something truly alien arrived here, humanity might not even be the first species to know about it.
There was another part of those stories that fascinated him just as much: they tended to end when the invasion was defeated—or when it had won. But what happened the next morning? What became of the survivors, the landscape, the governments and communities left behind? Could a world touched by something alien ever simply return to normal?
Those questions eventually became the foundations of Invasion Earth.
Away from fiction, Nick has spent more than twenty years working in software architecture. Much of that career has involved thinking about complex systems, unexpected behaviour, cascading failures, and what happens when one small change spreads far beyond its intended boundaries. Perhaps inevitably, some of that way of thinking found its way into his fiction too.
Nick lives in Belgium with his wife, Chanie, and their dog, Pixel—who, despite the author's suspicions about animals as perfect alien vectors, remains under loving care.
As a teenager, Nick spent countless hours with the original Resident Evil and Alone in the Dark games, while films such as E.T., Labyrinth, and The Goonies fed a love of stories in which ordinary people stumble into worlds that are much bigger—and stranger—than they imagined.
Later, that fascination took a darker turn. Stories such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Puppet Masters stayed with him, but they also left him with a question he could never quite shake: if an alien organism wanted to spread across Earth, why would it infect only humans?
Animals, he thought, would make far better vectors. They move unnoticed through forests, gardens, sewers, fields, and homes. A person acting strangely draws attention. A bird, a rat, a deer, or a dog usually doesn't. If something truly alien arrived here, humanity might not even be the first species to know about it.
There was another part of those stories that fascinated him just as much: they tended to end when the invasion was defeated—or when it had won. But what happened the next morning? What became of the survivors, the landscape, the governments and communities left behind? Could a world touched by something alien ever simply return to normal?
Those questions eventually became the foundations of Invasion Earth.
Away from fiction, Nick has spent more than twenty years working in software architecture. Much of that career has involved thinking about complex systems, unexpected behaviour, cascading failures, and what happens when one small change spreads far beyond its intended boundaries. Perhaps inevitably, some of that way of thinking found its way into his fiction too.
Nick lives in Belgium with his wife, Chanie, and their dog, Pixel—who, despite the author's suspicions about animals as perfect alien vectors, remains under loving care.
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June 2, 2026Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway!
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A huge congratulations to the 100 winners — I’m so happy the book has reached new readers! ❤️
I wrote this story from the heart and truly hope you enjoy it as much as I loved creating it. If the book moves you or you have a good time with it, I would be incredibly grateful for an honest review on Goodreads and/or Amazon whenever you finish.
Thank you again for your support!
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
A huge congratulations to the 100 winners — I’m so happy the book has reached new readers! ❤️
I wrote this story from the heart and truly hope you enjoy it as much as I loved creating it. If the book moves you or you have a good time with it, I would be incredibly grateful for an honest review on Goodreads and/or Amazon whenever you finish.
Thank you again for your support!
June 10, 2026
Reading Invasion Earth: Arrival by Nick Belhomme gave me the heebie jeebies. As if the Earth being invaded wasn’t bad enough, the new alien life is a writhing & wiggling mass of tendrils that will make the skin crawl of anyone suffering from scoleciphobia.
The town of Vesta, Florida had no idea what hit it, so it took a minute before residents started noticing strange behaviors, not just of people but also in animals.
I could feel the eerie silence that descended on the town, silencing the normal neighborhood sounds of life. Even the insects stopped making noise, which as we all know is a BAD sign.
When the alien force started to advance, it did so with life-seeking tendrils that wiggled and worm its way through people and animals alike. Just the thought of the sounds alone had me squirming.
Belhomme did a good job with the core characters, interweaving their backstories and making them likeable. When internal struggle showed up, I felt the tension, the reasoning behind the questioning.
At times it felt as if I was spinning my wheels when some of the descriptions felt repetitive, HOWEVER I was fighting off The Sickness on my end, so that could be where that’s coming from.
All-in-all, I enjoyed Invasion Earth: Arrival.
***I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway, but all thoughts and opinions in this review are my own. ***
The town of Vesta, Florida had no idea what hit it, so it took a minute before residents started noticing strange behaviors, not just of people but also in animals.
I could feel the eerie silence that descended on the town, silencing the normal neighborhood sounds of life. Even the insects stopped making noise, which as we all know is a BAD sign.
When the alien force started to advance, it did so with life-seeking tendrils that wiggled and worm its way through people and animals alike. Just the thought of the sounds alone had me squirming.
Belhomme did a good job with the core characters, interweaving their backstories and making them likeable. When internal struggle showed up, I felt the tension, the reasoning behind the questioning.
At times it felt as if I was spinning my wheels when some of the descriptions felt repetitive, HOWEVER I was fighting off The Sickness on my end, so that could be where that’s coming from.
All-in-all, I enjoyed Invasion Earth: Arrival.
***I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway, but all thoughts and opinions in this review are my own. ***
May 16, 2026
Loved it! The pulp content of the cover grabbed me immediately, and the book did not disappoint. Invasion Earth Arrival is an original story and well-written.
May 28, 2026
*Invasion Earth: Arrival* by Nick Belhomme is a fast-paced sci-fi read that pulls you in right from the start. The story blends action, suspense, and mystery really well, making it hard to put down. I enjoyed the world-building and the tension throughout the book, especially the feeling that something bigger was always coming. A solid read for anyone who enjoys alien invasion stories with plenty of twists and excitement.
August 16, 2026
Invasion Earth: Arrival did not hold my attention. I love the B-movie concept, but several chapters felt way too long and the twist just didn’t do it for me.
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