BeforeRegional Prelude
Regional Prelude
Twelve regional stories of a world already straining under the civic pressure that makes the system possible.
The five-book cycle
Five books about the path from fear to removal to survival.
Book I — Settlement is the doorway and stands alone: a mother, an infant, and a crowd of strangers trying to build rules before fear builds them first. The Prelude and Book 0 reveal the civic pressure and machinery before the island; Schism and Reckoning follow what the community becomes.
- Regional Prelude
Before
AvailableRegional Prelude
Reader role · Witness across regions
Twelve regional stories of a world already straining under the civic pressure that makes the system possible.
- Before the Island
Before
AvailableBook 0 — Before the Island
Reader role · Institutional auditor
Before the shore, there is machinery: analysts, language reviewers, forms, call windows, transport routes, consent fields. Public crisis becomes a transfer program.
- Settlement
Arrival
AvailableBook I — Settlement
Reader role · Settlement Floor (no-spoiler) · Mother's Bag (character)
A mother and her infant arrive on an unnamed island with strangers from many languages and lives. To survive, they build rules — and the rules begin to repeat the logic of the system that abandoned them.
- Schism
After first order
AvailableBook II — Schism
Reader role · Communal witness
When early order fractures, the community must learn to live with grief, disagreement, repair, and forms of communication that belong to no one authority.
- Reckoning
Long after
AvailableBook III — Reckoning
Reader role · Long-arc witness
Memory, proof, naming, inheritance, and the refusal of a simple final answer.
Every book
Browse the books.
Each book is built around people under pressure: citizens, newcomers, officials, children, witnesses, and the system that learns to move them.
TransferBefore the Island
Book 0 — Before the Island
Before the shore, there is machinery: analysts, language reviewers, forms, call windows, transport routes, consent fields. Public crisis becomes a transfer program.
View book →$12
ArrivalSettlement· Start here
Book I — Settlement
A mother and her infant arrive on an unnamed island with strangers from many languages and lives. To survive, they build rules — and the rules begin to repeat the logic of the system that abandoned them.
View book →$14
FractureSchism
Book II — Schism
When early order fractures, the community must learn to live with grief, disagreement, repair, and forms of communication that belong to no one authority.
View book →$14
ReckoningReckoning
Book III — Reckoning
Memory, proof, naming, inheritance, and the refusal of a simple final answer.
View book →$14
Pricing
Buy a book, or the full cycle.
Buy a single digital edition, or get the full five-book cycle. The bundle collects the entire arc and saves about 25%.
Free First Hour
$0
- A slice of Book I — Amara's first hour on the beach
- The arrival broadcast, the supplies inventory, the first form
- Email only, no payment
Regional Prelude — Digital Edition
$9
- Twelve regional stories
- The civic pressures that make NEMOS possible
- Story archive plus optional guided-reading files
Book 0 · Before the Island — Digital Edition
$12
- The machinery: analysts, forms, routes, consent fields
- How public crisis becomes a transfer program
- Story archive plus optional guided-reading files
Start here
Book I · Settlement — Digital Edition
$14
- The main entry point to the series
- All eight reading routes
- Story archive plus optional guided-reading files
Book II · Schism — Digital Edition
$14
- After the first order fractures
- Grief, repair, and communication beyond authority
- Story archive plus optional guided-reading files
Book III · Reckoning — Digital Edition
$14
- Memory, proof, naming, and inheritance
- The long work of continuation
- Story archive plus optional guided-reading files
Best value
The Full Cycle Bundle
$49
- All five digital editions
- Prelude through Reckoning — the complete arc
- Save about 25% versus buying separately
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