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Fangs of Survival  by arnelle01
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In a world where the dead walk and the living betray, survival is everything. She built her fortress brick by brick, hidden behind towering walls and guarded by a loyal pack of dogs she raised from helpless pups. To outsiders, it's a paradise in the apocalypse: fruit trees heavy with food, a garden full of life, and safety from the horrors clawing at the world beyond. But she hides more than her home. Behind the bandana covering her face lies a secret-fangs sharpened against her will, a reminder of the monsters who once forced her to kill. Now, silence is her shield, and her dogs are her only family. When she saves a boy and his brothers from a swarm of the undead, her careful world begins to change. Trust is dangerous. Attachment is deadly. Yet as raiders descend upon her haven, destroying everything she's fought to protect, she'll discover that the very curse she despises may be the weapon that saves them all. Fangs of Survival: The Zombie Plague is a heart-pounding tale of loyalty, loss, and love in a shattered world-where sometimes the fiercest monster is the one humanity created.
After the Quiet Ends by TacetnigruM
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The world did not end in an instant. It ended slowly-quietly-like something dying while still pretending to live. Serein Valdez learned to survive in that silence. Not because she was strong, but because she paid attention to things other people ignored. She learned how to move through ruined cities, how to avoid danger before it showed itself, and how to stay invisible long enough to live another day. She never planned to get involved with anyone. Especially not him. Leviandro Solenne is the kind of man who survives without asking permission from the world. Former military. Controlled. Detached. A man who moves like every decision has already been made long before it happens. When Serein finds him surrounded in the ruins-outnumbered, cornered, seconds away from death-she knows she should walk away. She doesn't. That single moment binds them in a world that punishes mistakes and calls attachment a weakness. He doesn't trust her. She shouldn't have saved him. But in a place where survival is no longer about strength alone, but about choice, instinct, and consequence- leaving each other becomes harder than surviving the world itself. And when the quiet finally ends, what's left behind is not just destruction. But the things they were never supposed to feel.