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Three Novels

One warming world. One hidden history.

The Deadly Ice trilogy moves from the frozen Southern Ocean to the corporate boardrooms of the climate economy, and finally to the red heart of Australia — where the past is not as dead as we imagined. Each book stands alone, but together they ask the same urgent question: what are we willing to sacrifice to keep the world we think we own?

01

Deadly Ice

The disaster

02

Toxic Legacy

The reckoning

03

Starfall Legacy

The secret

Deadly Ice — Antarctic eco-thriller by Chris Roberts, book one of the Deadly Ice trilogy

Book One · Available Now

Deadly Ice

Climate engineering
Tsunami disaster
Family stakes
Corporate greed
Antarctic ice

Australia is ravaged by a catastrophic drought. A father's desperate bid to save his dying daughter hinges on an audacious plan: tow a colossal Antarctic iceberg across the Southern Ocean. But when a solar-flare-induced earthquake creates a tsunami that pushes the iceberg onto a deep-sea oil rig, the mission of hope becomes a race against an apocalyptic oil slick. As nations reel and corporations crumble, the crews must battle the elements, each other, and their own pasts to deliver salvation.

  • 442 pages · Trade paperback
  • ISBN-13 · 978-1-0671345-0-1
  • Signed by the author
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Toxic Legacy — Coral Sea investigative thriller, book two of the Deadly Ice trilogy

Book Two · Sequel · 2026

Toxic Legacy

Environmental mystery
Investigative journalism
Long-buried secrets
Public health
Corporate accountability

They thought they were saving the Reef. They didn't know what it would cost them. When marine geologist Hugh Harlow leaks a survey his employers ordered him to bury, he triggers the largest political crisis Australia has faced in a generation. The find is real — a rare-earth deposit beneath the Coral Sea worth more than most nations. So is the contamination already bleeding into the Reef from thirty years of coal-seam gas, waiting for the storm that will release it. Hugh has eleven weeks before a Singapore-built harvester reaches the seabed. He has Sky Laurent, the biologist who proved the contamination is moving. He has Marika Voss, the scientist who has spent a decade being called hysterical for warning about exactly this. And he has Richard Madden — the salvage magnate whose own catastrophe started the bleeding, and who is now spending the last of his fortune to stop it. What he does not yet have is the answer to the question Marika keeps asking: Can the people who break the system to save it remain the kind of people who deserved to. By the time the storm reaches them, the answer will cost five lives, three governments, and everything any of them thought they knew about how a fight like this is won.

Starfall Legacy — outback first-contact thriller, book three of the Deadly Ice trilogy

Book Three · In Progress

Starfall Legacy

Ancient astronauts
Aboriginal lore
Rare earth mining
Evolution
First contact

They thought the greatest threat to the planet was humanity's greed. They were wrong. When marine geologist Hugh Harlow and his family follow an ancient Aboriginal Dreamtime story into the remote Pilbara, they discover something impossible: a three-and-a-half-billion-year-old alien spacecraft buried in the oldest rock on Earth. The ship seeded the first life on the planet — and its long, patient signal has shaped evolution ever since. But disturbing the ship unleashes a chain reaction. Magnetic runners across the Indian and Pacific oceans amplify its signal, triggering earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and ocean die-offs around the Ring of Fire. As governments scramble to contain the catastrophe, Hugh, his wife Sky, and their children — especially eleven-year-old Michael, who shares a unique connection with the ship — find themselves at the centre of a crisis that could end the very life the ship helped create. With the help of Aboriginal custodian Thomas Ngurlun, they must restore an ancient ceremony that spans continents and generations. Because the ship is not attacking. It is grieving. And only Michael — the boy who first touched it — can remind it that it is not alone. A sweeping eco-thriller that spans billions of years, Starfall Legacy is the powerful conclusion to Chris Roberts' acclaimed series. In a world on the brink, the line between saviour and destroyer has never been thinner — and the answer to humanity's survival may lie in the oldest relationship of all.

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