Building a Future

Rent goes up. Interest rates rise. Housing feels out of reach.

In Building a Future, three families face the same pressure — and make very different decisions.

In Logan, Kirsten refuses to watch her mum absorb another rent increase and begins redesigning their housing from the ground up. In Hendra, Michelle is caught quietly crying at her desk until a colleague shows her that home ownership isn’t a mystery — it’s maths. At Hope Island Marina on the Gold Coast, Brad trades pride for positioning, while his son Leo and girlfriend Mia look at a cruise ship and choose income over Schoolies, leverage over lifestyle.

From backyard granny flats to body corporate meetings, from Bunnings snags to Caribbean contracts, this BASA-Q novel humanises financial literacy without lectures or jargon.

Because stability isn’t luck.

It’s structure.

And financial literacy is a superpower.