Saint Marcus Bay: Book One: The Counting

By Colin Linder

**ST. MARCUS BAY: THE COUNTING**
**Book One**

After Halifax falls, Ray and Claire make a life in a boathouse on the Atlantic shore.

Ray is a carpenter. He knows what holds and what doesn't. For four months they've survived on that knowledge - rationing supplies, walking the perimeter, reading every stranger who appears as either threat or tool. It has worked. It has cost them things they don't discuss.

Then the smoke signals start. Then a playing card appears on the cliff path. Then a twelve-year-old boy drifts in from the bay in a rowboat with no oars.

His name is Owen. He knows things he shouldn't know. And someone is counting down to something.

The world outside the boathouse has organized itself. A man named Thomas is moving bay to bay along the Nova Scotia coast, collecting settlements under a system of his own design - efficient, coherent, and built on decisions nobody inside it has been asked to consent to. He reports to someone further north. The cards are that someone's introduction.

Ray has until the count reaches zero to understand what he's been handed - and what it's going to cost to use it.

*The Counting* is a post-apocalyptic literary thriller about what it means to build something worth defending, and what happens when the people who survive are not the same as the people who deserve to.

**Book Two coming 2026.**

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GQQB7KT6
• ISBN13: 9798250299480
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"