Project Lachesis

Published six years before the global COVID-19 pandemic, Project Lachesis (pronounced lock-sis) paints a fictionalized, but eerily accurate, picture of the potential devastation that can be wrought when government powers arrogantly try to control the forces of nature. "Everything changed when the fog rolled in."  When a top-secret government weapons project goes terribly wrong, a mysterious fog spreads over the globe, wiping out 90% of Earth's population.  In the aftermath, Lara Gilliam, a nurse and single mother from Galveston, Texas, must face the pain of her loss and somehow build a new life in the post-fog world.
Along with an eclectic group of fellow survivors, Lara relocates to Houston and begins to find a new normal.   But... over a thousand miles away, at a research facility on the campus of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, sinister forces are secretly at work developing a new weapon - one that, if unleashed, has the power to finish what the fog started.   After Lara moves to Las Vegas in hopes of reuniting with her loved ones, her world is shaken once again when she unwittingly learns the truth about the fog and the deadly virus it contained, a terrifying secret that those responsible will kill to keep hidden.   In a desperate race to stop another global apocalypse, Lara finds herself in a high-stakes game of government intrigue that threatens the lives of the people she loves.and the rest of the world's survivors as well.