The Cook Strait — 22 kilometres between two worlds
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The bombs fell on a Tuesday.
By Friday, New Zealand was all that remained.
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Book One
When nuclear war erases the Northern Hemisphere in a matter of hours, the most remote country on Earth becomes the last viable nation. Survivors from every continent begin the desperate journey south — across irradiated oceans, through pirate-infested waters, and into a land that never asked to carry the weight of the world.
Maria Santos, a Filipino nurse stranded on Palawan, boards a cargo ship bound for New Zealand with hundreds of strangers and one impossible task: keep them alive. From Shanghai to Sydney, Tokyo to Lagos, thirteen cities experience the same terrible morning — and the handful who escape must cross the deadliest ocean on Earth to reach the only shore still standing.
But New Zealand is fracturing. The Cook Strait — the turbulent 22-kilometre channel between the North and South Islands — becomes more than geography. It becomes a border between two visions of survival: one that opens its arms, and one that closes its doors.
As refugees flood the North Island and the South retreats behind quotas and patrols, families are torn apart, alliances are tested, and ordinary people are forced to answer an extraordinary question:
When you're the last safe place on Earth, what do you owe to everyone else?
Book Two
Five years after the bombs, Perth is a functioning city with buses and schools and sunsets that never knew a mushroom cloud. It is also a city with a wire fence and fifty thousand people on the wrong side of it. Hana Yoshida — a Japanese nurse who survived the Indonesian camps — works in a clinic and waits for a letter from a brother she hasn't seen since the fire separated them.
The letter comes. Kenji is alive, building tables in Christchurch, on the other side of the world. Between them: a continent that Perth says is dead, a strait that Tasmania has closed, and an ocean that only Compact ships can cross.
Hana crosses the wire. What she finds beyond it is not the emptiness Perth promised — it's millions of survivors, abandoned settlements, and the truth that comfortable cities are built on silence. In Tasmania, Emily Morrison — eighteen, the daughter of a man who died in Sydney — is asking her own questions about what her island did and didn't do when the boats came.
Their paths converge on a single question: what happens when the people who were left behind start speaking?
Silence is a choice we can unmake.
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The Cinderfall Series
The Cinderfall series follows the collapse and rebuilding of civilisation through the eyes of survivors scattered across the globe. Each book expands the world further.
