The Laurentian Fault

About the Series

In 2050, climate disasters have made ordinary life increasingly precarious across parts of Europe. Under an emergency international agreement, Canada commits to receiving twenty million displaced people. The undertaking is immense, and the country has little time to prepare.

As winter approaches, existing buildings are converted into shelters while essential services are stretched to accommodate the arrivals. Families from overseas attempt to begin again, while Canadians displaced by disasters at home are also searching for somewhere secure to live. Decisions made to protect one community can leave another bearing burdens it never expected.

The response is supposed to be temporary. But people put down roots, and the places created in haste begin to become permanent communities. As the years pass, questions about housing and work grow into deeper disputes over belonging and the right to shape the country's future. The institutions responsible for holding society together face growing pressure from the very changes they were created to manage.

Through the interconnected lives of those rebuilding their homes and those responsible for keeping the country functioning, The Laurentian Fault explores the human consequences of decisions made on an extraordinary scale.

Spanning five novels, The Laurentian Fault is an epic, character-driven speculative fiction series about a country transformed by crisis and the people who must find their place in the world that emerges.