Seven years after the world fell to the Rotters, Ashwick has become a fragile haven: fences high, leaders polished, a town rebuilt on order and trust. But beneath the neat routines, something is wrong. People vanish, Questions are met with lies, and danger doesn't only claw from outside the walls.
Mac Calder knows this better than anyone. Head of patrol, she's stoic, scarred, and untouchable, until the Quinn family arrives. For most, they're just newcomers. For Mac, Harper Quinn is a Compassionate, stubborn, and far too tempting, for someone like Mac, who swore she doesn't do feelings.
Harper only wanted safety for her siblings. Instead, she's caught between a town with secrets, a world full of Rotters, and the pull of the one woman she definitely shouldn't want.
Until the tension threatens to burn them both alive.
In Ashwick, survival is everything. But between buried lies, hungry monsters, and a slow-burn sapphic desire neither can control, survival might not be enough, especially when gay panic hits harder than the end of the world.
And remember: even at the end of the world, love is what remains.
After being left on the doorsteps of an orphanage at age four, Thalia Davis spends most of her life there. The few foster homes she had, never lasted more than a few months at best. Now an adult and trying to leave the past behind, Thalia's world is turned around by someone she would usually never think twice about.
Mackenzie Jace is a kind and giving soul. Still reeling from a heartbreak that feels too fresh, she moves to a new town after being transfered to its fire department. She spends her time fighting fires or taking out her frustrations at the gym. In comes a woman who can either heal or destroy what's left of her.
Cover By @HerNikolai