The Commons

Eadie’s desperation to conceive leads to a dangerous bargain with Shay. Her offer to take his National Service days at one of the city’s Resettlement Centres will seem a small price to pay for the chance to have a child.

Eadie’s drive to help Rachel find her family lost in the storm gives her a front row view of what people are experiencing further out in the hot zones.

Lloyd and Eadie find themselves in the bombed remains of their relationship now that Eadie’s pregnancy has finally been revealed. But Lloyd can sense Eadie’s still hiding something from him.

As an unprecedented heatwave grips the city, Eadie stares down the possibility that the cost of her gamble will be the Latu’s future, the loss of her marriage and now the chance that her babies’ health is at risk.