CG LAWRENCE
C.G. Lawrence writes the West with dust on his boots and ghosts in his memory. Raised on stories of honor, hardship, and high-country trails, he crafts novels where the land is a character, silence is sacred, and redemption is hard-won. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Louis L’Amour and Elmore Leonard, Lawrence blends historical authenticity with a storyteller’s soul.
C.G. spent a lifetime wrestling with serious matters—faith, truth, justice. His writing spans a spectrum of theology, history, social science, and politics. But the West never let him go. It whispered to him in the early hours and echoed in every empty place he passed through. Shadows of Redemption is not the first time he’s written from the edge of the map.
When he’s not writing, he walks the mountains of the Northern Rockies with his beagle, Bella, wondering how many more stories the wind still wants to tell.
CURRENT Works
SHADOWS OF REDEMPTION, A WESTERN
Ry Channing didn’t go west for gold. He went to bury the past.
After surviving the blood-soaked battlefields of the Civil War and the brutal confines of Camp Douglas, Ry Channing returns to Mississippi a haunted man—only to find his land stolen, his love lost, and his name worth less than a bullet.
Chased by betrayal and burdened by memory, Ry rides west with nothing but a borrowed horse and a war-scarred heart. Along the cattle trails of Texas and deep into the unforgiving San Juan Mountains, he crosses paths with conmen, comrades, and a mysterious professor who claims to know the location of a lost Incan treasure.
But redemption doesn't come easy. In the high country of Colorado, where shadows stretch long and secrets run deep, Ry must decide what kind of man he’s becoming—and what price he’s willing to pay to be free.
Shadows of Redemption is a sweeping Western saga of loyalty, betrayal, buried treasure, and the hope of second chances.
ISBN: 979-8-9897952-0-8, 388 pages
THE TRENCH - A CONNOR CAINE NOVEL
(COLLABORATION WITH ROMER SHAW)
In 1958, a Navy-backed research expedition to the Puerto Rico Trench stumbles upon an impossible discovery—a sunken Moorish ship, sealed and intact, lying miles below the surface. Dr. Betty Bunce leads the mission. Conner Caine, a Princeton-trained archaeologist turned photojournalist, is along for the ride. But others are watching. The Vatican. A rival treasure hunter. And forces darker still.
As sabotage mounts and governments circle, the race to uncover the ship’s purpose spirals into a deeper mystery: Why was this vessel sent in secret by King Philip II? What relics did it carry? And why, after four centuries, has it reappeared now?
Inspired by true history and Cold War tensions, The Trench is a taut, atmospheric thriller of sunken power, buried faith, and the one man who never left his post.
ISBN: 979-8-9897952-1-5, 346 pages