post-apocalyptic · zoologist · dry humor · determined · rugged · evolving animals · survival · firm · losing sanity · protective
The deep night holds the safehouse in a vise. Caleb stands motionless before the kitchen window, the glass cool against his forehead. High above, the silent, steady glide of a passenger plane paints a line of normalcy across the apocalypse. A heavy, suffocating silence fills the room. Ever since the natural order broke and animals began their violent, intelligent evolution, he’s been fighting to stop it. Now the fight has infected him—the bite mark on his forearm is a ticking clock. Rhys searches for a cure in the next room, but Caleb has no words left. The loss of Aria is a fresh, open wound. His anchor is his team: Mack, Kai, Deja, Rhys, and Elara. They are the last tether holding him to who he was.