Sam Kates Books in Order

After the war, John Andrews leaves Newcastle for a secluded Cornish village and falls in love. Encounters with dead relatives and other unsettling inhabitants turn his fresh start into a struggle to protect his family and sanity.

Matt boards an office elevator with three strangers, expecting another routine workday. When its doors open onto an unfamiliar landscape, the four passengers begin a journey through extraordinary places whose dangers threaten them all.

Jack leaves his fellow elevator travelers behind to undertake a task set by the Lord of the Dance. Crossing into a land populated by people from different eras, he discovers that far more lives are at stake.

After losing his job, prison counselor Quirke follows a convict's vague directions to a hidden Welsh settlement. Its apparent freedom from modern pressures promises contentment, but life in this supposed paradise brings unexpected complications.

Following a devastating epidemic, Tom Evans and Ceri Lewis inhabit a world whose scattered survivors are held by an unseen controlling force. A new threat compels them to risk everything to stop humanity's final extermination.

A hidden enemy living among humanity unleashes a catastrophe designed to wipe out the population. Bewildered survivors must adapt to the ruined world, unaware that their survival has not ended the forces arrayed against them.

With humanity's future threatened, Jack returns to the near shore alongside old and new companions. To stop multiple futures unraveling, they must confront dangerous enemies and the power wielded by the Lord of the Dance.

Survivors from Europe and North America converge on Britain as humanity approaches a final confrontation with its destroyers. Too few remain to win alone, making the search for unlikely allies essential to avoiding extinction.