The world is in chaos. War approaches Australian shores. Oceans are rising, volcanoes erupting, violent storms intensifying. Fatalities from starvation; malnutrition and disease increase daily. But for most people, life continues as normal, the changes are not yet interfering with their daily lives and so they convince themselves that there is nothing to worry about. Nothing they have to do.

As the days, months and years pass it becomes a time of death. Those that survive walk around the broken streets, riddled with radiation sickness and increasing disease, with no homes, no schools, no families, and only makeshift hospitals.

With nowhere to go, no hope for a resolution, people panic, and many give up. Coastal land masses collapse into the oceans, thousands of houses disappearing daily while the world’s temperature continues to rise.

Many years later, Kyle and Imogen listen to what happened to their world. They are told of the storms that came and the damage caused, with spreading fires around the world. Forests vanished, while erupting volcanoes changed the world’s landscape, eradicating animal and plant life, and worst of all, depleting the protective ozone layer, making the sky appear to be bleeding.

The Rock and a Bleeding Sky is not just a book of doom, but also of hope. At first Kyle and Imogen are crushed to learn what happened to Earth during their generation, but as they spend time in the future, wondering if they will ever return home to their families and friends, their hope and determination strengthens. They collect evidence to prove that what is ahead for Earth is catastrophic and must be acted on immediately. They realise the enormous pressure put upon them, but they don’t buckle from it. They accept that this is what their destiny is as Earth’s future is put into their hands.

The Rock and a Bleeding Sky explores the themes of acceptance, of taking responsibility even as others can’t, and developing the will to change. It’s a story that explores friendship, loyalty, trust, the pointlessness of shame, and the complex nature of life, death, love and hope.

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