Ashes for the Living

In a dying settlement choked by dust and silence, a man survives not out of hope, but out of habit. The world he knew was burned away-his love, his land, his purpose. Now, in the shadow of a looming conflict, he moves through the days like a ghost among the wreckage.

Everything changes the day he acquires two captives-one fierce, one unreadable-whose arrival disrupts the numb rhythm of his life. They are more than they seem, and their presence begins to thaw the hardened walls around his hea...