One hundred and forty-eight years after a virus wiped out civilization, Beckett has learned that survival comes down to two rules. Trust no one, and never miss a dose of the medication keeping the infection in his blood under control.
When a poker game leaves him responsible for returning a runaway woman to one of the last uninfected cities left standing, he takes the job for only one reason. Ruby is his ticket behind the walls, and the best lead he's had in over a century to find his missing sister.
Returning home is the last thing Ruby wants. An arranged marriage waits for her within the city's walls. Freedom lies somewhere in the wasteland, if she can escape the grumpy, fang-bearing infected man determined to drag her in the wrong direction.
She fights him every step of the journey.
Beckett doesn’t trust her for a second. She talks too much, asks too many questions, and looks at a ruined world like it could still be beautiful. The more she pushes, the more he refuses to let his guard down, no matter how often she gets under his skin.
As they cross flooded bayous and dodge other bounty hunters on the way to the mountains, every moment they’re forced to rely on each other chips away at the line between prisoner and captor.
When their fragile alliance comes to an unexpected end, Ruby realizes that walking away from him is easier than accepting the truth she's been avoiding...she doesn’t actually want to. Her search to find Beckett one last time leads to an underground facility deep within the Blue Ridge Mountains where the infected are experimented on in hopes of a cure.
Trapped together beneath the earth, with no escape and no one else to trust, survival may be easier than resisting each other.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
When a poker game leaves him responsible for returning a runaway woman to one of the last uninfected cities left standing, he takes the job for only one reason. Ruby is his ticket behind the walls, and the best lead he's had in over a century to find his missing sister.
Returning home is the last thing Ruby wants. An arranged marriage waits for her within the city's walls. Freedom lies somewhere in the wasteland, if she can escape the grumpy, fang-bearing infected man determined to drag her in the wrong direction.
She fights him every step of the journey.
Beckett doesn’t trust her for a second. She talks too much, asks too many questions, and looks at a ruined world like it could still be beautiful. The more she pushes, the more he refuses to let his guard down, no matter how often she gets under his skin.
As they cross flooded bayous and dodge other bounty hunters on the way to the mountains, every moment they’re forced to rely on each other chips away at the line between prisoner and captor.
When their fragile alliance comes to an unexpected end, Ruby realizes that walking away from him is easier than accepting the truth she's been avoiding...she doesn’t actually want to. Her search to find Beckett one last time leads to an underground facility deep within the Blue Ridge Mountains where the infected are experimented on in hopes of a cure.
Trapped together beneath the earth, with no escape and no one else to trust, survival may be easier than resisting each other.
Genre: Paranormal Romance