Cuan: The Last Harbour

by Peter John Cubbon Craine

Engineer Max Popov wakes from fifty years of hibernation to a broken promise. The ocean world of Cuan has no land, and humanity's last generation ship is dying. Paired with Connor, a gill-breathing diver bred by the very regime that calls him soulless, Max is sealed into a submersible sphere for six weeks. Just the two of them, alone at the bottom of an alien sea.

What starts as a wary truce becomes something neither man is allowed to want. As they map the ocean floor, Max and Connor fall in love. Under the laws of the Authority, that love is a death sentence.

They think they're unwatched. They're wrong. Hidden inside the walls of their own sanctuary is proof that someone has been listening all along, and a countdown neither of them can stop.

With their last transmission home, Max and Connor have to decide how far they'll go to survive, and what they're willing to become to keep each other.

Cuan: The Last Harbour is a hard science fiction love story about defiance, discovery, and the terrible cost of choosing your own future.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 25, 2026

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Ex-British, now Spanish citizen. Gay, progressive, neurodivergent, writer, cat lover.