Hamish C. Rannoch

The Drowned Concordat

A dystopian Netherlands, walled off and running on synthetic, corporate-grown food — and the quiet machinery of belief that keeps everyone inside it fed, docile, and sure they're safe. Book One is available now on Kindle. Book Three's cover and title are provisional. Three standalone novellas, set in the Delta in the weeks before the Covenant rises, are on their way.

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Out Now on Kindle

The Rise of the Covenant

The walls have kept the Netherlands fed for generations — vat-grown, corporate-certified, untouchable by the world outside. Elara Di Canti has given her life to keeping that system running, sure to her core that it's the righteous thing to do. A body can be sustained on synthetic certainty. A soul is harder to feed.

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The Terminal Exodus

Book Three
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The Sterile Eden

Tales from the Delta

Three standalone stories from the lower levels of the Bulwark, each ending on the same morning: the day the Covenant rises. Read them before or after Book One. Nothing here spoils the trilogy.

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The Rounding Error

A Drowned Concordat Novella

Every ration dispenser in the Delta keeps back four-tenths of a gram from every pour. Nobody goes short and nobody's looking, so Rens and his crew have been quietly lifting it out of a pipe in the Bilge. Then the numbers start to move.

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In Revision

Business Time

A Drowned Concordat Novella

Laid off from the flood barriers, Greg runs a one-man booth at Interchange Nine with a laminated rate card and fourteen days to find a deposit. A dark, filthy comedy from the bottom of the Delta.

Adult comedy · 18+
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In Progress

Where They Grew

A Drowned Concordat Novella

Four investigators in a unit that doesn't officially exist are asked for a simple number: how many believers live inside the Bulwark. The count comes out wrong, and it keeps getting more wrong in the same direction.