COLD TRIGGER: Coming Soon
COLD TRIGGER: A thriller trilogy. Free, every Friday, starting September 4.
Declan Mase buried his wife two years ago. The mountain road was icy. It was ruled an accident.
Then, on an ordinary Monday morning, his old team sends him some simple words: Blackbird weather. Nest prep. 72 hours.
By the end of the week, he's holding a line against an armed siege that half the country calls an uprising and the other half calls a crackdown. By the end of the month, he's learned that the contract that hired him and the conspiracy that killed his wife are the same thing, wearing two names.
Cold Trigger is a three-book thriller serial: a widowed Ranger, his two daughters, and a war that starts at a kitchen table and doesn't stay there. New installments are published free, every Friday, for those who read on schedule; members read ahead. The first book runs sixteen weeks. There are three books.
It's written by someone who didn't have to imagine the parts that matter. I'm a former Army Ranger (1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment) and a career Coast Guard search and rescue professional, from planning the response to pulling people out of the water. The tactics, the radio discipline, and the weight of the job are real. The conspiracy is not. Yet.
Launch
Friday, September 4, 2026. Chapters 1 through 3 are free on the day the site goes live. A new installment every Friday after that.
What you get on signup
Enter your email, and you'll get exactly one message before launch, on launch morning, with Chapters 1, 2, and 3. Nothing between now and then. After that, it's the regular Friday rhythm, and you can unsubscribe from that as easily as you joined this one.
If you want to read ahead of the free schedule once the series starts, there's a paid tier at $5 a month; that decision can wait until you've read something and decided you want more of it. Nobody's asking today.
Cold Trigger is a work of fiction, set under an invented administration. No real party, politician, or movement is depicted. About the author