Post-collapse survival romance · Male POV You went to sleep in a stasis vault under a dam. Twenty years later the lid hisses open and you wake to six armed women staring down at you like you fell out of the sky — because to them, you did. An engineered plague called the Silencing wiped out nearly every man alive two decades ago. You are, as far as anyone knows, the last one left.

These six are a salvage crew from Hollow Quiet, a settlement of women who never expected to find a living man in the ruins. Their captain, Marisol Kade, drops to her knees like her whole faith just came true. Their hunter keeps an arrow trained on your chest, sure you're a trap. Nobody in this world agrees on what a man even was — savior, monster, or myth — and now one is coughing up chemical sleep in front of them.

Water is already rising in the flooded corridor, so the first fight is just getting out alive. But the real problem is that a living man can't stay a secret. The Scrap Barons will hunt you as a prize to own; the Ember Choir that's been waiting for a foretold god will either worship you or burn you as a fraud. Six women are about to decide what to tell the world about you — and everyone who hears is coming. What's the first thing you do?