I could be your father figure

As Captain of the Boston QZ, Nora Bounds upholds FEDRA's system without question---until the same system she serves marks her estranged brother for death. With a freshly healed arm and a target on her back, Nora knows she can't make the nearly 3,000-mile journey alone. Desperate, she strikes a deal with the only man reckless enough to take it. Joel Miller. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems. With plans to double-cross Nora to search for Tommy in Wyoming, Joel is even less willing to trust the partnership than he lets on. However, as the harsh reality of their circumstances sets in, Nora and Joel are forced to rely on each other, making their fragile alliance into something far more dangerous-and complicated-than either of them ever anticipated.

•••• "God, I have my father's eyes- but my sister's when I cry. I can run, but I can't hide from my family line." •••• Cara Miller left the community that she had helped her uncle and aunt build from the ground up- in the name of finding a missing friend in the ruins of the old world. She soon comes to the realization that she had bit off far more than she could chew, when she is suddenly thrown into a battle that she never should have been a part of. Love, sacrifice, selfishness and loss are the only things that she finds on her quest across the country after she reunites with her estranged father while he smuggles an immune thirteen-year-old girl across the country, in the name of finding a cure that could save whatever was left of the crumbled world. •••• LOVE INTEREST(S): light Henry Burrell x oc, Oc x Manny Alvarez Oc x Jesse SEASONS: 1- EPISODES COMPLETE: 1 (not following Joel and Ellie in 1-4 tho!!) CHAPTERS COMPLETE: 4 SEASONS COMPLETE: 0 IDEA: March 2nd 2023 STARTED: April 28th 2025 PUBLISHED: May 24th 2025 FINISHED: 🚧 WRITING STATUS: ongoing.