take on me, joel miller
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MatureOngoing27h 11m
Last published Sun, Apr 5, 2026
The world ended, but people didn't. Not entirely.
Twenty years after the outbreak, survival has become second nature. But when Althea agrees to help smuggle a girl across the country, everything shifts. There's Joel: quiet, brutal, impossible. The gruff, closed-off man with blood on his hands and grief in his bones. There's Ellie: foul-mouthed and sharp-eyed, with too much riding on her small shoulders. And there's Althea, stuck somewhere between running from her past and crashing headfirst into a future she never dared to want.
Love isn't safe. Hope isn't smart. But some things are worth the risk.
Because in the end, it's not about what you've lost,
but what you're willing to fight for,
even when the world seems beyond saving.
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