“The world we used to know is fading away, and all we can do is watch it happen.” Japan has fallen and most of its population has died at the hands of a pandemic. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka have settled at the southern end of Japan, in Kagoshima. The former office worker and former high school student stick together, doing their best to survive the winter. But without modern inventions, even the mild winter of the south is a challenge to weather. But staying in one place feels like a shame, so the two of them decide to travel all the way to the northernmost part of Japan - Hokkaido. Get there by summer and return to Kagoshima before the winter. All around them, the Japan they used to know is fading away. What will they find in these remains?

The third-part of the [Salaryman x JK] post-apocalypse series! "We have all lost something precious somewhere down the long road of time." A virus has wiped out most of humanity. The world humanity built is slowly fading away, sinking into the ground, returning to the soil. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka begin to figure out how to survive in a world without any modern comforts. Neither of them has any experience with farming, so they have to learn as they go. Sayaka knows it is best to stay in Kagoshima, but there is one more journey she needs to make. In the future, Sayaka goes on a journey with her daughter, Hana, retracing the steps she once took with Yamada Daisuke, while trying her best to raise Hana in a world that shows no mercy to the unprepared. The long road of time is filled with bittersweet memories. Will they find what they are looking for?

The fourth part of the [Salaryman x JK] post-apocalypse series! “Inside this room, under the faint moonlight, we were able to find small pieces of joy here and there.” Fujiwara Sayaka and Yamada Daisuke embark on a final journey to search for survivors across the decaying remains of civilization. Sayaka is worried about their future daughter – how will she survive in a world without any modern comforts? What will the world look like a century from now? She knows she and Daisuke won’t be there to see it, but the child inside her will. As they travel across the remains of Japan, Sayaka and Daisuke reveal each other’s past to each other so that they can move into the future without any doubts. What they were doing, who they were with – visiting their past selves in a world that has completely changed. In this final journey, can they take a step into the future?

Tokyo - Population: 2 A deadly pandemic sweeps across the world, and Yamada Daisuke is the only survivor in Tokyo. Get up early, fight rush hour, work until the last train – it’s all over. He doesn’t have to worry about anything anymore. Even money has lost its value because there is nowhere to spend it. But things do get quite lonely as the last man standing. He has the city all to himself and no one to share it with. One day he meets Sayaka – a girl who came from outside Tokyo. They decide to stick together because there is no one else left. A high school girl and an office worker. Two people who would’ve never met otherwise. They decide to travel together all over Japan. Side by side. Partners at the end of the world. But what will they find on their journey? A new [Salaryman x JK] post-apocalypse light novel!

A new [Salaryman x JK] cohabitation romcom! My name is Sato Hiroshi, and I’m an ordinary salaryman. Every day I work until the last train, then I go home. I don’t have a girlfriend and spend my weekends alone. Living like this is just too depressing! So I decide to visit a soapland. It is a paradise for lonely men. Don’t judge me, okay? Life is really hard. Anyway, I meet a girl called Ayumi — a soapland girl who looks exactly like a JK. What happens at a soapland is a secret, right? Wrong. The next day, Ayumi shows up at my office as a part-timer. And she turns out to be a real JK?! We pretend to be strangers, but then I find Ayumi sleeping in the office at night. “Hey, you can’t sleep here.” “Then...in that case, let me stay with you, uncle.” My life with a troublesome JK begins! We live together like newlyweds — except we are not married. “Sato-san, it’s time for dinner.” “Let’s go on a date~” “I don’t mind doing it…if it’s with you.” But why was Ayumi at the soapland? What secrets is she hiding behind that wholesome smile

I had to accept that I wasn’t just Arthur Leywin anymore, and that I could no longer be limited by the circumstances of my birth. If I was going to escape, if I was going to go toe-to-toe with the most powerful beings in this world, I needed to push myself to my utmost limit...and then I needed to push even further. After nearly dying as a victim of his own strength, Arthur Leywin wakes to find himself far from the continent where he was born for the second time. Alone, broken, and with no way to tell his family he’s alive, Arthur must rebuild his strength to survive. As he ascends through an ancient dungeon filled with hostile beasts and devious trials, he discovers an ancient, absolute power - a power that will either ruin him or take him to new heights. But the dungeon won’t give up its knowledge easily. Before he can plunder its depths, Arthur must learn to untangle the threads of fate. He must band together with the unlikeliest of allies if he hopes to escape with his life.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends comes another heartbreaking, emotional and timely page-turner that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named. No one has hope for the delinquent teenagers who have been exiled there; the world barely acknowledges that they exist. Then the guards at Hope start acting strange. And one day...they don't show up. But when the teens band together to make a break from the facility, they encounter soldiers outside the gates. There's a rapidly spreading infectious disease outside, and no one can leave their houses or travel without a permit. Which means that they're stuck at Hope. And this time, no one is watching out for them at all. As supplies quickly dwindle and a deadly plague tears through their ranks, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust and figure out how they can survive in a world that has never wanted them in the first place. Also by Marieke Nijkamp: This Is Where It Ends Even If We Break Before I Let Go Praise for Marieke Nijkamp: "Immersive and captivating. Thrilling in every sense of the word."—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us is Lying on Even If We Break "With exceptional handling of everything from mental illness to guilt and a riveting, magic realist narrative, this well wrought, haunting novel will stick with readers long after the final page."—Booklist on Before I Let Go *STARRED REVIEW* "A compelling, brutal story of an unfortunately all-too familiar situation: a school shooting. Nijkamp portrays the events thoughtfully, recounting fifty-four intense minutes of bravery, love, and loss."—BookRiot on This Is Where It Ends