Ash Years - The First Bloom

Riven is seventeen, dying by inches, and running out of time faster than anyone will say out loud.Finn didn't ask to be a father. He didn't ask for the thing running through his blood that makes him worth hunting, either, but he built a family out of scavenged parts and stubborn love in a wasteland that isn't supposed to allow either, and he will burn the world down twice before he lets it take this one.Kira just wanted to survive the Wastes. She didn't expect a family. She didn't expect a boy with failing lungs, a man with dangerous blood, or her mother's name waiting for her at the bottom of a government ledger.When the Hunt finally catches up to them, it isn't a fight for the world. It's a fight for three people who found each other in the ash, and refuse to let go.Grief is the silence we keep. Love is the noise we make.