Say We've Found Forever
(2026)(The fourth book in the Flowers From Ashes series)
A novel by Anna Callaway
ADDISON
The world ended, just not the way she was told it would. Addison is stranded on a rural farm with her young daughter, no supplies, and no husband. He vanished in the middle of the apocalypse, unwilling to risk himself to protect them from hordes of the dead. When a stranger kicks in the front door, she fears the worst. Wyatt claims the farm belongs to him and says he isn’t leaving, whether she approves or not. Pointing a shotgun at his chest and eyeing the kitchen knives when he turns his back both feel like reasonable solutions.
Instead, he makes her an offer. Thirty days. They’ll share the house, the food, and the work of bringing the farm back to life. At the end, he’ll load the gun and hand it to her. If she still wants him gone, she can pull the trigger herself. Addison was raised in a doomsday cult where women had one purpose, to repopulate the planet when the end came. Wyatt doesn’t command her, though, and somewhere between shared meals and midnight chores, she stops counting down the days until she can be rid of him…and starts imagining a future that isn’t guaranteed.
WYATT
Wyatt flew out of Alaska when the virus began in the only thing he had left, his rickety charter plane. He watched ground zero spread like locusts and failed to save the people who mattered most. By the time he lands near the farm that was supposed to be empty, he’s carrying more guilt than supplies. He doesn’t expect to find a woman in his house pointing a shotgun at his face, her hands shaking but her resolve steady. Leaving the farm to her and the kid, who need it as badly as he does, would be reasonable. Instead, he gives her thirty days to decide whether he lives or dies. He tells himself it doesn’t matter. He doesn’t plan on staying long. They aren’t his responsibility, and the farm is just another stop on the way somewhere else. Wyatt has already lost everyone he’s ever cared about. The last thing he’ll do now is let someone else into his heart.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
The world ended, just not the way she was told it would. Addison is stranded on a rural farm with her young daughter, no supplies, and no husband. He vanished in the middle of the apocalypse, unwilling to risk himself to protect them from hordes of the dead. When a stranger kicks in the front door, she fears the worst. Wyatt claims the farm belongs to him and says he isn’t leaving, whether she approves or not. Pointing a shotgun at his chest and eyeing the kitchen knives when he turns his back both feel like reasonable solutions.
Instead, he makes her an offer. Thirty days. They’ll share the house, the food, and the work of bringing the farm back to life. At the end, he’ll load the gun and hand it to her. If she still wants him gone, she can pull the trigger herself. Addison was raised in a doomsday cult where women had one purpose, to repopulate the planet when the end came. Wyatt doesn’t command her, though, and somewhere between shared meals and midnight chores, she stops counting down the days until she can be rid of him…and starts imagining a future that isn’t guaranteed.
WYATT
Wyatt flew out of Alaska when the virus began in the only thing he had left, his rickety charter plane. He watched ground zero spread like locusts and failed to save the people who mattered most. By the time he lands near the farm that was supposed to be empty, he’s carrying more guilt than supplies. He doesn’t expect to find a woman in his house pointing a shotgun at his face, her hands shaking but her resolve steady. Leaving the farm to her and the kid, who need it as badly as he does, would be reasonable. Instead, he gives her thirty days to decide whether he lives or dies. He tells himself it doesn’t matter. He doesn’t plan on staying long. They aren’t his responsibility, and the farm is just another stop on the way somewhere else. Wyatt has already lost everyone he’s ever cared about. The last thing he’ll do now is let someone else into his heart.
Genre: Paranormal Romance