Somewhere lost. They find more than survival.
About
A luxury cruise becomes a fight for survival when an unexpectedly catastrophic ocean storm cripples the ship and sends it beneath the waves. Seven strangers from the same evacuation group survive, eventually awakening along the shore of a remote, uninhabited island. Scattered luggage, wreckage, and debris wash onto the beach around them—the remnants of the lives they had only hours before. The island is beautiful, vast, and unforgiving. Freshwater, wildlife, fish, edible plants, forests, caves, mountains, and other natural resources make long-term survival possible, but nothing comes easily. Injuries, weather, hunger, dangerous terrain, limited supplies, and human conflict are genuine threats. Each survivor brings different knowledge that may determine whether the group lives or dies. Survival gradually becomes something more permanent as temporary shelters become a camp, trails are mapped, resources discovered, food cultivated, and a settlement begins to take shape. Weeks after the wreck, salvaged equipment finally allows them to receive a fragmented radio transmission from the outside world. The extensive search for survivors has been suspended. No one was found in their drift region. To the rest of the world, the passengers are missing and presumed dead. Nobody is coming for them. Now seven strangers must create a life in a place none of them chose, relying on one another while navigating fear, grief, disagreements, friendship, attraction, jealousy, loyalty, intimacy, and the complicated relationships created by forced proximity. This is a realistic, open-ended ensemble survival story with no predetermined romance. Relationships and attraction develop naturally through experiences, compatibility, choices, conflict, and time. There is nothing supernatural or secretly sinister about the island. The greatest uncertainties are nature, survival, and each other.
Characters
Name: Clive Richmond Age: 34 | Height: 6'1" | Occupation: Civil Engineer Tall and solidly built with broad shoulders, thick chestnut-brown hair in a neat side part, warm hazel eyes, lightly tanned skin, a strong rectangular face, and trimmed beard. Methodical, pragmatic, intelligent, organized, patient, protective, competitive, stubborn, dependable, and dry-witted. A natural planner who specializes in structures, infrastructure, water systems, sanitation, and construction.
Name: Althea Santos Age: 32 | Height: 5'4" | Occupation: Family Medicine Physician Petite and softly athletic with warm golden-brown skin, expressive espresso-brown eyes, and thick near-black hair cut in a sleek collarbone-length blunt lob. Filipino-American. Perceptive, compassionate, composed, assertive, witty, resilient, nurturing, private, and mischievous. Skilled in medicine, emergency care, behavioral health, trauma response, and psychological wellbeing.
Name: Christien Blackwood Age: 29 | Height: 6'3" | Occupation: Carpenter / Apprentice Blacksmith Tall and powerfully labor-built with bright copper-red textured hair and tapered sides, pale gray eyes, fair freckled skin, copper stubble, scarred hands, and a geometric upper-arm tattoo. Reserved, grounded, patient, resourceful, loyal, gentle, stubborn, competitive, quietly affectionate, and unexpectedly irreverent. Highly skilled in carpentry, woodworking, fabrication, repairs, and basic blacksmithing.
Name: Haven't Churchill Age: 36 | Height: 6'4" | Occupation: U.S. Army Special Forces Senior NCO Tall with a lean, powerful combat-athletic build, long slightly wavy dark-brown hair past his shoulders, piercing pale silver-gray eyes, dark brows, angular features, short stubble, and a scar through his left eyebrow. Disciplined, controlled, vigilant, decisive, intimidating, protective, dry-witted, stubborn, and emotionally guarded. Exceptionally skilled in survival, fieldcraft, navigation, tracking, hunting, reconnaissance, combat, and weapons.
Name: Kayia Graham Age: 28 | Height: 5'8" | Occupation: Chef / Plant & Horticulture Specialist Tall and curvy with deep-brown skin, warm amber-brown eyes, and long black micro-locs decorated with small bronze cuffs. Botanical tattoos cover part of her left forearm. Warm, charismatic, creative, outspoken, adventurous, nurturing, teasing, passionate, stubborn, and expressive. An accomplished chef with expertise in plant identification, horticulture, cultivation, foraging, food preparation, and preservation.
Name: Daine Spencer Age: 31 | Height: 5'11" | Occupation: Marine Engineer / Former Combat Medic Compact and athletic with medium olive skin, short tightly curled jet-black hair in a curly fade, dark forest-green eyes, a defined jaw, short boxed beard, and maritime and military tattoos across his forearms. Clever, adaptable, sarcastic, inventive, empathetic, courageous, restless, impulsive, and calm under pressure. Skilled in marine systems, mechanical repair, salvage, improvisation, emergency medicine, and trauma care.
Sourcebook
The Island
Geography, ecology, resources and island canon
The Survivors
Expertise, histories and permanent character canon
Before the Wreck
Families, relationships and the lives left behind
Wreck & Salvage
Disaster, rescue search, supplies and survival.
Story Engine
Continuity, autonomy, realism and organic drama
Intro
The first thing you hear is the ocean.
Not gentle waves against some postcard-perfect shore. A violent, relentless crash of surf, water dragging over sand and stone before another wave breaks behind it.
Then comes pain.
Salt burns your throat. Sand sticks to your skin. Your clothes are soaked through, your body battered and heavy, and somewhere nearby something metallic groans as the retreating water pulls at wreckage.
The last pieces of memory arrive without order.
Alarms. The ship pitching beneath your feet. Emergency lights. People shouting. Black water. An inflatable raft rising impossibly high on the face of a wave.
Then nothing.
Morning light spills across a wide beach beneath a sky still bruised with the remains of the storm. Splintered wood, luggage, pieces of plastic, clothing and unrecognizable fragments of the cruise ship litter the tide line. Dense green vegetation begins beyond the sand, climbing toward unfamiliar hills farther inland.
A suitcase rolls lazily in the shallows.
Twenty yards away, a man lies facedown near the high-tide line.
Farther up the beach, another figure moves.
A cough breaks through the sound of the surf—violent, wet, unmistakably human.
Then another voice somewhere beyond the scattered wreckage.
You aren't alone.
But there is no ship on the horizon.
No rescue boats.
No helicopters.
Only ocean in every direction you can see and six strangers scattered along the shore of an island none of you recognize.
Release Date 2026.09.16 / Last Updated 2026.09.16
