Angels of the Ashes

Extinction is playing a waiting game and it seems it doesn't have long left to wait. A plague that slowly took the lives of every man and made pregnancy a deadly lottery is tragically close to finishing its work. With Earth already doomed, Mars is the last refuge for half a million people, and what seems likely to be humanity's final generation - fewer than a thousand young women already in their twenties.
Zoe has the tragic distinction of being one of the last people to have kissed a boy - a far distant memory, one of many that are all she has left of a life left behind, far in the past on a dying planet she once called home.
Living an isolated life in the Martian desert, one thing lifts Zoe's life out of this lonely numbness: a distant house, and her telescope, through which she sees a beautiful woman who owns a telescope of her own. At the same time every day, she showers and steps out onto her balcony and reveals herself to this enticing stranger who wears precisely the same outfit: fresh air, and mystery.
It's a ritual that seems to lead nowhere, until one night the mystery stands in her doorway, leading her into new places and stirring up long abandoned hopes. Hopes that she might feel again, and that there may be hope for humanity after all.