In a world burning to ash, love is the last thing they expected to find.

The Heat Wave took everything-cities crumbled, the sky turned to fire, and the last remnants of humanity became desperate and violent. Nova has been running ever since, searching for a safe place to bring her baby into the world. Widowed, alone, and carrying the weight of her past, she trusts no one. Especially not the strange, brooding man who keeps crossing her path.

Abraham has always known he was different. Raised to believe he wasn't human, he spent his life trying to understand everything-except himself. Now, banished by his people and wandering a dying Earth, he has only one purpose: find survivors and lead them to his city.

Until Nova.

He doesn't want to take her to safety.

He wants to keep her as his own.