Rough Around The Edges
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Last published Tue, May 6, 2025
They met at the edge of the world, back when things still felt like they could go back to normal.
Evelyn Greene had left the farm before the fall, building a quiet life as a nurse in a small town-until the outbreak turned cities to ash war zones. Weeks later, she returned to the Greene farm hoping to find her family alive. What she found instead was a group of armed strangers, a barn full of secrets, and a man leaning against a motorcycle with a crossbow on his back and more ghosts in his eyes than words in his mouth.
Their connection was brief-stolen glances, shared cigarettes, quiet understanding. Then everything burned.
Thrown together in a brutal, shifting world, Daryl and Evelyn must reckon with the grief they buried, and the dangerous pull between them that never really went away. In a world that punishes softness, falling for someone might be the most reckless thing either of them could do.
But some things are worth the risk.
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