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In the smoking wreckage of a broken timeline, two women from wildly different worlds collide-one forged in the cold crucible of espionage, the other raised in the irradiated bones of civilization's end.
After the events of Thunderbolts, Yelena Belova-Black Widow, survivor, reluctant operative-is sent to track down an unknown anomaly detected by S.H.I.E.L.D.: a displaced woman wielding strange pre-war tech and a haunted stare. That woman is Lucy MacLean, a resourceful scavenger from the Wasteland, accidentally flung into the present-day MCU Earth through a malfunctioning Vault-Tec prototype.
What begins as a mission of containment turns into something far more human. Yelena, trained to distrust and eliminate, finds herself drawn to Lucy's raw honesty and fierce will to live. Lucy, overwhelmed by a neon world of gods and machines, clings to the one person who doesn't treat her like a threat. Together, they unravel a deeper conspiracy-one that spans fractured timelines, draws the attention of Kang variants, and threatens to unravel reality itself.
On the run and hunted through collapsing time-bridges and shadowed ruins, Lucy and Yelena fight side by side and fall-slowly, painfully, and completely-in love. But every heartbeat is a risk. Every choice, a crossroad between two worlds.
In the end, survival means more than just staying alive-it means choosing each other, even as the universe tries to tear them apart.
A post-apocalyptic espionage romance full of action, heart, and searing emotion, "Ashes of Tomorrow" explores what it means to find love when there's nothing left to lose.