2035 A.D. - A Novel

In 2029 A.D., the world caught fire. In 2035 A.D., the world crumbled.

A husk of what once was - order, familiarity, comfort, and peace - hides behind police states, frontlines, industrialized cities, and authoritarianism. The third global war had swept across the nations faster than anyone foresaw. Frontlines sprouted like a deadly mold from dying borders. Bombings and intercontinental missile attacks became weekly occurrences. Civil wars went loose. Nations fell, becoming lifeless puppet states and protectorates. Governments reformed into regimes of control and surveillance.

Amid the protracted global war, which was now a vessel for proxy conflicts, was a group of civilian fighters working for an international nonprofit, responsible for filling the voids left behind by the countless lost across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Among them is Aiden Abner, a man forged in the fires of the collapse - hardened, scarred, and weary - fighting for a promise made to a wife and daughter waiting in Provo, Utah.

In a world where war is the new white, the blank, deafening backdrop of human existence, Abner knows the odds. He has made his peace with the inevitable. Whether he returns to his family on his feet or in a hardwood box, the vow remains unbroken. In the cold machinery of the global proxy war, death is never a tragedy.