Tides of Tomorrow

Book 1 of Five

Hope takes root in the most unforgiving ground.

Fifty years after the seas rose, the Estuary Collective has built a life worth living. Floating platforms connected by rope bridges. Vertical gardens and kelp forests. A community sustained by the tides and by each other. Then the coughing starts. The illness spreads faster than fear. The healers' herbs cannot touch it. And when the death toll rises, the Collective faces an impossible choice: wait and hope, or send a foraging party into the unknown. Their destination: Old Bristol. A drowned city where only the tallest towers break the surface. Rumour says people survived there, people who might have kept the old medical knowledge alive. Four volunteers step forward. An engineer who has never left home. An apprentice healer carrying everyone's hopes. An old sailor returning to the city he fled fifty years ago. And a scout with secrets of her own. Two days across waters no one has charted. A city no one has seen. Strangers who may help them or turn them away. The Collective is dying. The cure lies beyond the horizon. The Sickness is the first novella in Tides of Tomorrow, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember.

Book 2 of Five

Beneath the surface, the future is already forming.

They came seeking medicine. They found a world. The towers of Old Bristol rise from the water like the fingers of a buried giant, and in their heights, people have built lives the Estuary Collective never imagined. Vertical gardens cascade from balconies. Bridges span between skyscrapers at dizzying heights. And somewhere in this maze of glass and steel, strangers are watching. Seren thought she understood engineering. Then she met the Rooftops, who farm the sky. Moss thought they knew what medicine required. Then they saw what the old city preserved. Gull thought he was ready to face his past. He was wrong. And Wren? Wren is trying very hard not to recognise anything. The foraging party has arrived. But earning the trust of people who've survived alone for fifty years won't be easy, especially when the cure they need lies deeper still, in flooded levels where only the Underloft dare to go. The Estuary Collective is dying. The clock is ticking. And in the drowned city, nothing is given freely. The Drowned City continues the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember.

Book 3 of Five

What we build together outlasts what divides us.

Beneath the drowned towers of Bristol, in pressurised chambers where every breath is borrowed from the sea, a different kind of survival has taken root. The Underloft speaks through action, not words. They judge by craft, not promises. And they remember everyone who comes to their threshold. Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wren have crossed unknown waters and navigated the politics of the Rooftops. But the medicine Havenswell needs lies deeper still, in flooded pharmacies and collapsed hospitals, in places where the old world sleeps beneath fifty years of silence. To earn passage into the drowned places, they must prove their worth. To find what they seek, they must face dangers that have claimed divers before. And to make it home in time, they must outrun something building on the horizon, something none of them can control. The pressure finds every crack. Every weakness. Every secret. Some truths cannot stay hidden in the deep. The Drowned City continues the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember.

Book 4 of Five

Even as the waters rise, something ancient remembers how to grow.

The sky has been watching them since they left Bristol. What begins as a darkening on the horizon becomes something else entirely. A storm unlike any in living memory, rising from the deep waters, hungry and relentless. The kind of weather that swallows boats whole and leaves nothing behind but questions. Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wren have found what Havenswell needs. Now they must bring it home. But the sea demands its due. Every wave tests the limits of their vessel. Every hour reveals new fractures, in the boat, in the body, in the bonds that hold them together. When Gull's heart begins to fail, the crew must make impossible choices with no time to weigh the costs. And back in Havenswell, the bells toll for the dying. The sickness spreads. Those who remain watch an empty horizon, carrying words they never found the courage to speak, waiting for a shape that does not appear. Some storms destroy what they touch. Others strip away everything but the truth. The Storm continues the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember.

Book 5 of Five

Every journey ends at a harbor. This one is just beginning.

While four souls fight the storm, Havenswell is fighting its own battle. The bells toll day after day. The sickness spreads despite every precaution. Those who remain watch the empty horizon, carrying words they never found the courage to speak, waiting for a shape that does not appear. In the healing ward, knowledge slips away with every laboured breath. And then, through the grey morning light, something. A shape. Wrong somehow, listing, battered, but unmistakably a sail. The sea gives back what it chooses. But salvation is not simply the arrival of medicine. It is the synthesis of hope from raw ingredients. It is the conversations finally spoken after years of silence. It is the discovery that survival means nothing without connection, that the future must be built with hands reaching toward each other across the water. Some journeys end where they began. Others reveal that home was never a place at all. The Return concludes the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember.