The Cohort

31 chapters · ~84,310 words · complete

Fourteen trafficked strangers wake inside the Array — a windowless, self-reconfiguring honeycomb of concrete cells wired with levers, wheels, and buttons that might dispense food or water, or might kill you, kill someone else, or take a limb outright. No rules. No guards. No explanation. Dana Okafor, a former actuary who spent her career pricing catastrophic risk, starts to recognize the shape of a model in the group’s suffering — and realizes she wasn’t taken at random.

A psychological body-horror thriller in the lineage of Cube, The Platform, and Lord of the Flies — original mechanism, original mythology, with a committed explanation that re-contextualizes everything once it lands.