Stories Built On
Misdirection
I write fiction where the line between reality and expectation blurs. Where truth hides in plain sight, waiting to be uncovered. Stories that reward careful readers while still catching them off guard.
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"If you finish my books uncertain which parts were real, then I’ve done exactly what I set out to do."
— Louis Johns
Fiction by Louis Johns
Where expectation meets the unexpected.
The Reset
Detective Daniel Hanlon returns to duty after a shooting that should have ended his career. When a woman who knows his name jumps from a rooftop and vanishes without a body, the facts quickly become impossible. Hanlon follows the trail into forgotten tunnels beneath the city and finds himself at the center of a government conspiracy so vast it redefines everything he knows.
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Fiction built on misdirection and unexpected turns
The Reset
Detective Daniel Hanlon returns to duty after a shooting that should have ended his career. When a woman who knows his name jumps from a rooftop and vanishes without a body, the facts quickly become impossible.
After Her
A psychological novel about a man whose identity is built entirely around the love of one person. When that love is lost, what follows is a fracture so deep that devotion becomes survival.
The Observer
Five people are quietly stalked and murdered. No connection between them except a single photograph of the next victim found at each scene. Journalist Michael McCray helps the FBI follow the trail, only to discover his own face in the next photograph.
The Long Vigil
A Science Fiction Thriller Trilogy
The Long Vigil
When the UTN Aurora is suddenly drawn into a violent interstellar conflict, its crew discovers that Earth has been hiding a shadow fleet for decades. The Strategic Defense Fleet has been fighting a secret war in deep space to keep humanity safe from an enemy that will not communicate and cannot be reasoned with.
The SDS Aegis is one of the ships that has carried that burden in silence.
But with the stakes higher than ever, the secret war can no longer remain hidden. The fleets of Earth must now stand together, and the crews of Aurora and Aegis find themselves fighting side by side against an enemy neither of them truly understands.
As the conflict spreads across the stars, fragments of a disturbing truth begin to surface and the war they are fighting may not be the real threat.
And if they are right, the battle for humanity's survival may only be the beginning of a race to prevent something far worse—an event that could mean the destruction of the universe itself.
The Author
I fell in love with fiction chasing that rare story that could actually surprise me.
Most books telegraph their twists. You see them coming chapters away. The author thinks they're being clever, but they're just being obvious.
I wanted to write something different. Stories built on misdirection. The kind that reward careful readers while still catching them off guard when it counts.
Fiction has always been where we hide the things we're not allowed to say out loud. I use that.