The Single Road War
An Ensemble of Survival

About this book:

On a needle-shaped island where a single two-lane highway is the only artery between survival and starvation, the road has just been cut in two places at once. At Mile Zero, a grounded warship strands the southern settlements behind concertina wire and silence. At the Northern Terminus, an amphibious transport sits in the deep-water channel while grey-clad officers declare the Spine a military corridor—closed to civilians, patrolled from the air, and enforced at gunpoint. Between them, 190 miles of crumbling asphalt, salt-eaten bridges, and communities that have spent generations scraping by on peat, fish, and stubbornness.

Staff Sergeant Aris Thorne has fifteen years of cattle disputes and drunk drivers behind him, a quarter tank of diesel, and three bolt-action rifles to face whatever's coming down the road. Chief Inspector Clara Vane has a harbor full of trapped families, a coal depot the occupiers want, and a ledger she keeps writing in because someone has to remember what normal looked like. Neither asked for a war. Both know the road is the only way off the island—and the only thing worth holding.

*The Single Road War* is a gritty, ensemble survival thriller where the front line is a sixteen-foot ribbon of macadam and the combatants are constables, fishermen, auctioneers, and engineers fighting a modern occupation with obsolete tools. No heroes. No miracles. Just the cold arithmetic of fuel, food, and the distance between two checkpoints closing fast.