When The Sky Breaks: Some will survive. Not all!

WHEN THE SKY BREAKSThe rain was not supposed to peak until tomorrow. By Saturday morning, the hills were already moving.In New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds, people know how quickly weather can change.They know roads can disappear beneath slips. Rivers can rise without warning. Remote bays can be cut off in minutes.But nobody is prepared for what is coming.As relentless rain sweeps across Marlborough, families are separated, farms begin to flood and entire communities find themselves isolated from the outside world. Roads vanish beneath mud and water, communications begin failing and emergency crews are stretched across a district where every call for help could become a fight for survival.In Wakaretu Bay, Matt Keenan watches the hills begin to give way while trying to protect his family.In Rai Valley, volunteer firefighter Dean Harwood leaves his own threatened property to help strangers caught in rising water.In Havelock, Coastguard crews prepare for a disaster that is moving faster than anyone predicted.And across the region, ordinary people begin doing what small communities have always done when everything goes wrong.They turn up.When The Sky Breaks is a powerful New Zealand disaster thriller about survival, family, courage and the extraordinary things ordinary people will do for one another when there is nowhere else to turn.Inspired by the resilience of real Marlborough communities and the author's own experience of severe flooding in the Marlborough Sounds, this is a story about what happens when nature takes control, and what remains when the water finally goes down.Because sometimes surviving the storm is only the beginning.