Twelve Miles to Midnight, set for release in April of 2016, is a novel in short stories that begins on a midnight road heading north from disaster and travels to the docks of Halifax and along the Eastern seaboard. Narbonne is a former marine engineer, who, from an insider's perspective, writes stories that range from realistic tales to sometimes romantic fables, setting his chapters in isolated mining towns, sailors' bars, Cape Breton fishing villages, and onboard oil tankers off Newfoundland.