When the world ends, survival is supposed to come first.
Love is supposed to be optional.
Ben has survived by staying quiet, staying useful, and staying alive. Aaron survives by building, protecting, and leading—by becoming indispensable to every place they pass through. Together, they've learned that devotion is dangerous in a world that values efficiency over attachment.
Inside a fortified settlement that sees love as a liability, their bond is tested in ways neither of them expected. Aaron is offered power and security—at a cost that would make Ben invisible. Ben is pushed to the edges, where survival means making impossible choices and holding the line when others look away.
But some connections don't weaken under pressure.
They sharpen.
As walls fall, leadership shifts, and the dead press closer, Ben and Aaron must decide what they're willing to sacrifice—and what they refuse to surrender. Because in a broken world, devotion isn't soft.
It's defiant.
It's intimate.
And it may be the only thing that keeps them human.
Book 3 of the Love at the End of the World series.
