A door in the mountains
Two lifelong friends follow an elk trail into the unknown, and step into something that doesn't belong to this world.
The Book · A Portal Survival Thriller
Lost in Colorado:
A Portal Survival Thriller
Some trails don't lead home.
Two worlds. One impossible journey. No way back. The debut novel from Thomas Seidel, and book one of a trilogy set deep in Colorado's San Juan Mountains.
Lost in Colorado · Thomas Seidel
Every trail has a story.
This one has a door.
Walk through it, if you dare.
The Story
Two lifelong friends. One elk trail. A world that shouldn't exist.
Deep in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, two lifelong friends follow an elk trail into the unknown, and step into something that doesn't belong to this world. While they fight to survive in a savage, prehistoric land ruled by ancient predators and a brutal natural order, a desperate search ignites back home. In the mountains, weather turns deadly. Every clue leads nowhere. And something is hunting them.
What follows is a fight for survival and a desperate search to find a way back home. Lost in Colorado is a sci-fi portal survival thriller for adult and young adult readers alike, the first book of a trilogy, and the work of twenty-five years.
What Waits on the Trail
Two worlds, one impossible journey.
A savage, prehistoric land
On the other side waits a land ruled by ancient predators and a brutal natural order, where they must fight to survive.
A desperate search at home
Back home a search ignites, while every clue leads nowhere and the odds narrow by the hour.
Something is hunting them
In the mountains, weather turns deadly. And something is hunting them.
The Setting
Somewhere in the San Juan Mountains.
Real Colorado high country, and the trail that leads out of it.
Colorado
The San Juan Mountains
Rugged high country where the weather turns deadly and every clue leads nowhere.
The trail
Snowball Creek
Ethan and Wes follow the elk trail above Snowball Creek in the pre-dawn dark.
Home
Pagosa Springs
Where two families wait for men who don't come home.
The search
Archuleta County
The sheriff's department combs the mountains for any trace of them.
Book Details
The essentials.
- Title
- Lost in Colorado
- Author
- Thomas Seidel
- Genre
- Sci-Fi / Portal Survival Thriller
- Series
- Book One of a Trilogy
- Readers
- Adult / YA Crossover
- Setting
- San Juan Mountains, Colorado
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We can't stay Mara. We have to find a way back to our world. There are others who depend on us, who love us. We must return.
From the pages of Lost in Colorado Thomas Seidel
Inside the Book
Five chapters, no way back.
Step inside the opening chapters, from a hum in the pre-dawn dark to the first radio calls that don't add up.
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