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The Fifth Wave: A gripping disaster thriller about a handful of survivors fighting to stay alive in the aftermath of a catastrophic tsunami.

A slow, sickening roll. A mournful shriek from the sirens. For the small town of Port Blossom, it’s the beginning of the end.

On a quiet Friday morning, the residents of a peaceful Oregon coastal town are going about their lives. A mother hurries to get her daughter to school. A weary teacher prepares for one last field trip before retirement. A proud innkeeper argues over repairs to her historic hotel . High above them, a lone seismologist on a forced vacation understands the terrifying a megathrust earthquake has just ruptured the Cascadia subduction zone, and a catastrophic tsunami is racing toward them at the speed of a jetliner.

What follows is a relentless and terrifying struggle for survival. Thrown together by chance and torn apart by chaos, a handful of survivors must navigate a world erased by the ocean's fury. They face a drowned landscape of churning debris, toxic floodwaters, and the terrifying reality that the first wave was only the beginning .

From a high school gymnasium turned into a deathtrap to a crumbling chimney stack on a scoured cliff, each survivor must confront their own breaking point. When the rules of society are washed away, who will you become? In a world remade by disaster, the fight for survival is just the first battle. The real war is for what comes after.

If you love gripping disaster thrillers, post-apocalyptic suspense, and stories of ordinary people pushed to extraordinary limits, you won’t be able to put down this heart-pounding novella.

99 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2025

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August 5, 2025
Unbelievable!

What a ride! This book started off with a lead in so sharp, so right to a terrifying event, found me actually racing for a higher place to get above the coming waves. This story was so realistic that I felt the need to escape. You simply need to read this story, right now, if you live close to the shore of every ocean. Liz f/South Jersey, USA
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April 5, 2026
Excellent survival story

I loved it could not read it fast enough to see the outcome and blended with humanity and perserverience and a new beginning
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