About

C.K. ColdWell is the pen name of a debut author with a lifelong obsession with the psychology of evil — not the theatrical kind, but the quiet, convinced, entirely ordinary kind.

The Clay Trilogy began with a single question: what if the most dangerous person in a room genuinely believed they were the most merciful?

The result is Nyla — a psychological thriller set in New Glarus, Wisconsin, where a detective returns to the childhood she buried and discovers the town has been keeping its own version of mercy for twenty years.

C.K. ColdWell writes for readers who finish the last page and immediately flip back to the first. For readers who don’t want the answer handed to them. For readers who are still thinking about it three days later.
The Clay Trilogy is a three-book series. Nyla is Book One.