Colorado is full of things that should have died. Mutants with too many teeth. Animal shapes twisted into nightmares. Men who trade women and children like meat. Settlements where screams vanish into the dark and no one dares look too closely. Sari has survived all of it by becoming someone the world overlooks. With her face hidden and her body disguised, she scavenges the wastes alone, trusting her blades more than people and keeping her heart buried with the dead. Until she sees a little girl and a wounded young man locked in a cage. Lucy is small, terrified, and already marked for a fate Sari knows too well. Callahan is barely standing, yet still trying to shield his sister with what little strength he has left. Rescuing them means stepping back into the kind of nightmare Sari swore she would never touch again. Now the three of them must cross a rotting, postwar wilderness where every shadow may be alive, every town hides a fresh cruelty, and every night carries the sound of something hunting. But the closer Sari gets to Callahan, the more dangerous the journey becomes. Because in a world made monstrous by hunger, grief, and blood, love is just another thing that can be torn apart.