As Through Fire

The kind system that promised to keep everyone safe has begun to sicken the very people it marked — and Hannah Reid, a nurse with no name left on any register, kneels in back rooms to tend them, for nothing, because there is nothing left to pay with.

The people she loves are scattered; to refuse the order is no longer merely inconvenient but dangerous. And out of the dark the man who helped build it comes back — to confess, and to find her.

As the fire-season closes over Melbourne and the long night deepens, everything narrows toward a single hill and the dawn the watchmen always promised.

Hannah has learned what her faith is for. Now she learns what it costs — and what, when everything else has burned, is still standing.