We Don't Play With Fire
(2026)(The third book in the Babysitter of the Apocalypse series)
A novel by Courtney Konstantin
Vicki always insisted she wasn’t anyone’s mother.
Then she traded her freedom for a little girl who calls her Momma.
Now caged by the Children of Z, Vicki is starving, branded, and trapped at the mercy of the Mistress, a woman determined to use her as bait. The cult believes Theo will surrender to save her. Vicki knows him better. He’ll come fighting, and that could get everyone she loves killed.
Three weeks later, Theo finally finds a safe place for Gabby and Tina behind the walls of Fort Baker. But safety means nothing while their family is incomplete. With unexpected allies at his side, he follows a trail through cult camps, zombie-filled roads, and settlements where the living may be even more dangerous than the dead.
While Theo closes in, the Mistress prepares her cruelest spectacle yet, one designed to break them both.
But Vicki has survived foster homes, addiction, zombies, and becoming a mother against her better judgment. She refuses to let a self-proclaimed queen decide how her story ends.
To bring their family back together, Vicki and Theo will have to outwit the living, survive the dead, and prove that love isn’t a weakness.
It’s the reason they’re still alive.
Babysitter of the Apocalypse Book Three continues Vicki, Theo, Gabby, and Tina’s story and should be read after Books One and Two.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Then she traded her freedom for a little girl who calls her Momma.
Now caged by the Children of Z, Vicki is starving, branded, and trapped at the mercy of the Mistress, a woman determined to use her as bait. The cult believes Theo will surrender to save her. Vicki knows him better. He’ll come fighting, and that could get everyone she loves killed.
Three weeks later, Theo finally finds a safe place for Gabby and Tina behind the walls of Fort Baker. But safety means nothing while their family is incomplete. With unexpected allies at his side, he follows a trail through cult camps, zombie-filled roads, and settlements where the living may be even more dangerous than the dead.
While Theo closes in, the Mistress prepares her cruelest spectacle yet, one designed to break them both.
But Vicki has survived foster homes, addiction, zombies, and becoming a mother against her better judgment. She refuses to let a self-proclaimed queen decide how her story ends.
To bring their family back together, Vicki and Theo will have to outwit the living, survive the dead, and prove that love isn’t a weakness.
It’s the reason they’re still alive.
Babysitter of the Apocalypse Book Three continues Vicki, Theo, Gabby, and Tina’s story and should be read after Books One and Two.
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy