FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HONOLULU, HI — July 9, 2026 — Author Ray Culver today announced H2ONU, an ambitious debut novel and full-color first-edition hardcover arriving July 15, 2026.

Ahead of launch, readers can reserve a first-edition copy free at h2onu.com/reserve, with no payment due today, and receive a personal 10% code for launch day.

Built across 752 full-color pages and 80 chapters, H2ONU follows a revolutionary water-based technology powerful enough to threaten the world’s dependence on oil. What should be a miracle quickly becomes the most dangerous discovery on Earth.

From Hawaiʻi to Philadelphia, Washington to Beijing, London to a hidden stronghold in the Canadian wilderness, the story follows Ray Hershey, a man who never asked to matter, as the discovery draws corporate dynasties, intelligence agencies, and people willing to kill to keep the world exactly as it is.

Woven through it all are ancient glyphs, encoded prophecy, environmental collapse, covert operations, and the kind of love that makes impossible choices necessary.

At its center is a question both intimate and global:

What happens when you start to see the pattern clearly?

Part thriller, part love story, part warning, H2ONU explores the collision between power and truth, fate and free will, faith and science, survival and sacrifice. The novel grounds its epic scope in the emotional lives of characters searching for connection in a world built to divide them.

Culver spent eight years building the book, not just writing it.

“H2ONU began as more than a story,” said Culver. “It became a way to preserve everything I was trying to understand about love, power, faith, technology, and the systems quietly shaping our lives.”

In the book’s opening dedication, Culver writes, “This is the sound of my soul.” That personal intensity shaped the physical edition itself: all 752 pages are printed in full color, with every chapter, symbol, and image placed as part of a larger pattern readers are meant to uncover.

The book’s title refers to the fictional H2ONU technology, a discovery capable of transforming seawater into fuel and disrupting the infrastructure of oil, debt, war, and centralized control. Within the story, the invention does not merely threaten an industry. It threatens the world order built around that industry.

A portion of every purchase supports Hawaiian sea turtle conservation through the H2ONU Initiative at h2onu.com/impact.

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Availability

H2ONU will be available July 15, 2026, at H2ONU.com and through Ingram distribution.

H2ONU by Ray Culver — first edition hardcover

H2ONU by Ray Culver
First Edition Hardcover
752 pages, full color
80 chapters
$79.99
ISBN: 979-8-9922333-0-8
Reserve now: h2onu.com/reserve

About the Book

H2ONU is an independent mythic eco-thriller by Ray Culver, blending speculative technology, environmental stakes, ancient symbolism, faith, love, and conspiracy into a full-color first-edition novel. A portion of every purchase supports Hawaiian sea turtle conservation through the H2ONU Initiative.

Learn more at h2onu.com.

About the Author

Ray Culver is the author of H2ONU, a mythic eco-thriller that blends love, environmental collapse, ancient symbolism, political conspiracy, faith, and speculative science into a single full-color literary artifact. Shaped by Philadelphia and transformed by eight years in Hawaiʻi, Culver writes at the intersection of power, spirituality, technology, and the ocean. H2ONU is his debut novel.

Media Contact

Ray Culver
Email: press@h2onu.com
Press kit and review copies: h2onu.com/press