A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear CanadaLOCATIONS BOOK II: THE EXODUS BOOK I LOCATIONS BOOK III LOCATIONS BOOK IV LOCATIONS WANT TO KNOW MORE? THE SUMP The Sump is a flooded settlement built aolongside the former Décarie highway, where slow brown water swallowed the old highway and forced survivors to adapt or drown. Lantern-lit markets, mutated crawfish traps, scavenged shelters, and improvised engineering projects line the cracked...
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CHARACTERS BOOK IV: THE SPARK BOOK I CHARACTERS BOOK II CHARACTERS BOOK III CHARACTERS WANT TO KNOW MORE? UNA In The Spark, Una stands at the edge of something irreversible. She is no longer the girl who endured systems built to contain her, nor the wanderer simply learning how to survive their collapse. The years have stripped illusion from her. What remains is clarity. Hard-earned. Dangerous...
CHARACTERS BOOK III: THE DRIFT BOOK I CHARACTERS BOOK II CHARACTERS BOOK IV CHARACTERS WANT TO KNOW MORE? UNA In The Drift, Una is no longer the child who watched systems close in around her. She is a woman shaped by movement: by roads that never end, by wind that never settles, by structures that adapt faster than the people trying to escape them. The Stadium taught her how control looks when it...
FIELD GUIDE TO POST-COLLAPSE ATMOSPHERICS Field Guide Civilian Black Ops Classified Weather in this world is not just background. It is pressure. Almost an antagonist.Climate did not collapse evenly. It fractured. What began as anomaly became pattern. What felt like weather became jurisdiction. Across Montreal and beyond, the air no longer behaves as background. It concentrates. It isolates. It...
CREATURES APPEARANCES Across the four books of the Montreal series, the creatures are not random horrors, they are symptoms. Some crawl from water long forgotten by sunlight. Some bloom quietly in stone. Some move in air thick with ash and memory. Others are almost human, until they are not. Each one reflects the system that shaped it: pressure made flesh, adaptation turned predatory, survival...
DISCOVER OUR MAIN CHARACTERS BOOK BY BOOK Across four novels, the story is carried not by archetypes, but by people under pressure. Survivors, believers, strategists, dissenters, enforcers, leaders… Each character enters the world with a history and a fault line. Some are shaped by systems. Some try to master them. Others attempt to dismantle them from within. No one stands untouched...
CHARACTERS BOOK II: THE EXODUS BOOK I CHARACTERS BOOK III CHARACTERS BOOK IV CHARACTERS WANT TO KNOW MORE? ANDY Andy is forged in hope and motion. In Exodus, he becomes more than a survivor; he becomes a man defined by the space between instinct and responsibility. He carries himself with contained intensity: alert, watchful, rarely at rest. The world has trained him to anticipate danger before...
LOCATIONS BOOK I: THE REFUSAL Book I: The Refusal locations unfold across a landscape shaped by collapse, ritual, and systems that survived humanity better than people did. BOOK II LOCATIONS BOOK III LOCATIONS BOOK IV LOCATIONS WANT TO KNOW MORE? THE CAVE The Cave is a hidden limestone refuge buried beneath Pius-XII Park, sealed behind an iron gate and reinforced concrete door deep within...
DYSTOPIAN TROPES FOR BOOK IV: THE SPARK BOOK I TROPES BOOK II TROPES BOOK III TROPES WANT TO KNOW MORE? CORE STRUCTURAL TROPE SET The Spark of Difference A small, unstable shift becomes the only possible change agent — not revolution, but variance within rules. Reorientation Crisis Protagonist(s) confront a systemic discontinuity that forces reassessment of survival logic. Emergent Pattern A...
A dystopian novel series set in post-nuclear Canada
Stéphane Roy is a lifelong reader and writer with a deep love for science fiction, apocalyptic worlds, and tightly constructed mysteries. This is his first novel. He lives in the Yukon with his dog and his aquarium, where long winters, silence, and wide, sometimes glowing, skies leave plenty of room for imagining the end of the world, and what might come after it. He is also waiting, with cautious optimism, for the aliens to finally reveal themselves and straighten us all out.