BLOOD AND DIESEL

The world ended in three days. The N-7 virus turned seventy percent of humanity into monsters. The survivors are the cruel, the desperate, the ones who keep breathing when everyone else stops. Stephanie Aiyuna has been hunting for two years. Seventeen names are carved into the stock of her M24 sniper rifle—the people who sold out her military squad and burned her town. Twelve are crossed out. Five remain. At the top: Colonel Ashford, the man who started it all. Reilo Jokka has been dying for eight months. A military injection gave him inhuman speed and strength, but it came with a price: the slow rot, a variant of N-7 eating him from the inside. Doctors gave him six months. He’s still running, still fighting, still hunting the man who ordered the experiment—Ashford—and the brother he lost along the way. They meet at a gas station, both out of fuel and out of time. A deal is struck: help each other find Ashford, and put a bullet in his head together. But Ashford is only a pawn. Behind him stands a rogue scientist with the original N-7, a fanatical order that burns survivors alive, and a weapon that could finish what the virus started. And they all need Stephanie’s blood—because she’s one of the rare few who are naturally immune. From the burning ruins of a slave auction to the frozen dead lands where Titans roam, Stephanie and Reilo fight, bleed, and refuse to let each other die. But as the rot spreads and Ashford’s army closes in, they face an impossible choice: revenge, or a cure that could save everyone—if they’re willing to sacrifice themselves for it.