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PERDITION: ALL ROADS LED HERE
The surface gives you eight minutes.
After that, it takes everything.
A year after the collapse, what remains of humanity survives beneath the earth in a silent, controlled city where every breath is measured and every sound is regulated. The rules are go up, retrieve what you can, and get back before the air changes.
Ash Fryxell is a Runner. He knows the limits. He’s lived them.
But something has changed.
People are returning on time… and still breaking. Not violently. Not randomly. Deliberately. The system calls it error. Contained. Explained. Forgotten.
Ash knows it isn’t.
At the centre of it is something the city was never meant to allow.
An unregulated pregnancy.
A child that shouldn’t exist.
As leadership tightens control and prepares to contain the threat at any cost, Ash begins to see the truth forming beneath the silence. The surface isn’t just killing anymore.
It’s learning.
And if it can understand the rules that kept humanity alive, then those rules are no longer protection.
They’re a signal.
Now Ash must
Protect the civilisation that raised him…
or expose the truth that could bring it down.
Because if the child survives, Haven dies.
Perfect for readers
Dark psychological thrillersDystopian and speculative fictionHigh-concept survival stories with moral conflict
After that, it takes everything.
A year after the collapse, what remains of humanity survives beneath the earth in a silent, controlled city where every breath is measured and every sound is regulated. The rules are go up, retrieve what you can, and get back before the air changes.
Ash Fryxell is a Runner. He knows the limits. He’s lived them.
But something has changed.
People are returning on time… and still breaking. Not violently. Not randomly. Deliberately. The system calls it error. Contained. Explained. Forgotten.
Ash knows it isn’t.
At the centre of it is something the city was never meant to allow.
An unregulated pregnancy.
A child that shouldn’t exist.
As leadership tightens control and prepares to contain the threat at any cost, Ash begins to see the truth forming beneath the silence. The surface isn’t just killing anymore.
It’s learning.
And if it can understand the rules that kept humanity alive, then those rules are no longer protection.
They’re a signal.
Now Ash must
Protect the civilisation that raised him…
or expose the truth that could bring it down.
Because if the child survives, Haven dies.
Perfect for readers
Dark psychological thrillersDystopian and speculative fictionHigh-concept survival stories with moral conflict
318 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 6, 2026
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May 7, 2026
Fantastic read!!
I really enjoy Dan’s writing style. Having read several of his books, I scooped this up straight away.
I was hooked from the beginning, and found myself transported to a very different world to mine.
The characters brought the story to life and the story itself was like nothing else I’d ever read! Bravo!
I really enjoy Dan’s writing style. Having read several of his books, I scooped this up straight away.
I was hooked from the beginning, and found myself transported to a very different world to mine.
The characters brought the story to life and the story itself was like nothing else I’d ever read! Bravo!
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