In a world of scarcity, Olivia struggles to meet Freetown's needs and seeks alliances with neighbouring Northumbria to cover the shortfall but a terrorist attack and ill health forces her to reluctantly pass the torch onto her husband Ryan who has other ideas of how the city should be run.
The discovery that superior intelligent replicants had been living among them triggers a Mercian invasion, the capture of one of the simulants and threatens the freedom of the whole island.
Ryan, Jim and the simulants must work together against Mercia or lose the liberty of the entire commonwealth.
Scarcity of book five in the collapse series and can be enjoyed as much on its own as it can as part of the series.
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M J Dees has published eleven novels and ranging from humour to dystopia to political to historical to space opera. He makes his online home at mjdees.com. You can connect with him on Twitter at @mjdeeswriter, on Facebook at mjdeeswriter and you should send him an email at mj@mjdees.com if the mood strikes you.