In a post-apocalyptic world loyalty is tested, truth is weaponized, and the future hinges on the one thing the world forgot: that love is the most radical act of all.When Elara Thorne's quiet mountain sanctuary is torn apart by a desperate fugitive, she's thrust into a race against time to reach a hidden vault beneath the ruins of St. Louis. But the vault won't open for just anyone. It demands her: Seed One, heir to a lost legacy, voice that can calm monsters, heart that must choose between vengeance and rebirth.From the ashes of a collapsed civilization rise Rotwalkers, ruthless corporate warlords, fanatical doomsday cults and a scarred idealist who may be her enemy, or her only chance at saving what remains.