Freedom means making brutal choices.
Rebel lovers Naya and Ric have survived one year in hiding, raising Nayaâs twins from infants to toddlers in the shadow of the brutal Auberge dictatorship. Theyâre alive, and theyâre together, but the city is crumbling around them and the haunting memory of Nayaâs dark days on The Line have never fully left them. Living in isolation wonât be an option forever.
When a mysterious revolutionary seeks their help to infiltrate Aubergeâs electronic heart and shut it down, itâs an opportunityâitâs risky, yes, but if it works theyâll get out of the city and taste freedom for the first time. Naya needs this. They need this.
Beyond the broken walls of Auberge, Naya and Ric find the paradise theyâve always longed for. But with anarchy reigning and Nayaâs children lost amidst the chaos, theyâll need to forfeit their post-apocalyptic EdenâĻor commit an unspeakable act.
Book two of two
71,000 words