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The Oceanbound: The Long Return
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 30 2026
Pages: 618
Weight: 1.62
Height: 1.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
JD thought he had already lost his first life.
Years after a lethal toxin drove humanity from the land and onto the sea, Anthem is the only home he has left. It is where his makeshift family waits. His brother Theo and the other members of his Anthem family, Rya, Harry, Ian, Sarah, and his Uncle have built something like safety in a world that no longer offers much of it.
Then JD had learned the truth.
His biological family may still be alive somewhere on land, hidden at an old converted mine in New Zealand.
With Nico and Art beside him, JD sets out across a dangerous ocean toward a country no one has safely returned from. But the sea is only the beginning. Beyond the shore waits poisoned air, dead cities, empty roads, and the remains of a world that has long since died.
The protection keeping them alive is temporary. Their time on land is limited. And every mile inland brings JD closer to the answer he has wanted for years - and the choices he may not be ready to make.
Because finding the people he lost could change everything.
And bringing them home may mean risking the family who saved him.
The Oceanbound: The Long Return is a YA post-apocalyptic survival novel about loyalty, found family, first family, and the cost of returning to a world that has not stopped being dangerous.
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