Fault Lines: A literary novel of pressure, possibility, and what breaks us.

When Lena is forced to leave her life behind in central Scotland, she accepts a job in Baile Lùtha, a remote coastal town built around a vast wind farm — a place shaped by clean energy, tight routines, and quiet expectations. The move promises escape, purpose, and the chance to begin again.

But Baile Lùtha is no blank slate. It is a community held together by infrastructure, policy, and compromise, where people live in the shadow of machines designed to run without pause — and where nothing works for long without human care.

As Lena tries to find her footing, she is drawn into the unseen pressures that govern the town: generational memory, fragile economies, and the unspoken cost of progress. Relationships strain. Certainties erode. And when a small failure exposes a deeper fault in the system, Lena is forced to confront what endurance really means — and where responsibility lies.

Fault Lines is a quietly powerful debut about work, place, and the stories we tell ourselves about transition. Set against Scotland’s shifting energy landscape, it explores the tension between inevitability and choice, asking what sustains us when the structures we rely on begin to crack.