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Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. When dawn breaks they might be seen from the road and rescued, or not.
They wait desperately holding onto life, unravelling the sequence of events that brought them together.
Tristan is a philosopher struggling with the question of free will. Grace's life of hardship allows no place for such ideas. But a brief encounter changes their lives, setting them on a collision course with love and death - and each other.

Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken, and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death.

As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be rescued, we discover the stories of their lives.

A provocative new philosophical thriller from the author of Genesis.

The island Republic has emerged from a ruined world. Its citizens are safe but not free. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues a girl from the sea. Fourteen-year-old Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better. She's sat facing three Examiners and her five-hour examination has just begun. The subject is close to her heart: Adam Forde, her long-dead hero. In a series of startling twists, Anax discovers new things about Adam and her people that question everything she holds sacred. But why is the Academy allowing her to open up the enigma at its heart? Bernard Beckett has written a strikingly original novel that weaves dazzling ideas into a truly moving story about a young girl on the brink of her future.

2075 год. Чума уничтожила практически все население Земли, лишь граждане Островной Республики сумели выжить, изолировав себя от окружающего мира. До смерти напуганные, они сбивают приближающиеся самолеты, топят корабли, расстреливают любого, кто осмелится приблизиться к острову. А потом юноша по имени Адам Форд спасает полумертвую беженку, приплывшую на…