New Release — 2026
Literary Thriller
In the past four years, more than sixty scientists across three continents have died or disappeared under nearly identical circumstances. No signs of depression. No notes of despair. Phones factory-reset. Affairs in order. Lives left behind with the calm precision of someone checking out of a hotel.
Investigative journalist Elias Vance is assigned to find the pattern. What he finds is worse than a conspiracy. The scientists weren't being killed. They were being contained — quarantined by a secret government operation that has been running since 1983, fighting not a weapon or a technology but an idea.
The proof is beautiful. The proof is irrefutable. And everyone who reads it to the final page makes the same calm, rational, irreversible decision.
Now Elias has the proof. The clock is running. And his eleven-year-old daughter is calling.
Series
Post-apocalyptic fiction. Eight books planned. Two published.
Book One
The world ended. The strait didn't. In the aftermath of collapse, a community clings to the narrow passage between what was and what comes next.
Read on Amazon →Book Two
The distance between survival and living is measured not in miles but in the choices made when no choice is good.
Read on Amazon →About
Cole Lauwd writes fiction about the spaces between — between the known and the unknown, between staying and leaving, between the world as it appears and the world as it might actually be.
His work draws on real events, declassified documents, and the unsettling patterns that emerge when you look at the data long enough. The characters are fictional. The questions are not.
Contact
For press enquiries, rights, and correspondence:
colelauwd@gmail.com