The Hold: Ash Winter Book One

The radio said warmth and protection. It also said it was not a helping hand.Venla Virtanen has been alone since the bombs dropped. Fourteen months of grey snow, empty cabins, and a hunting rifle she took off a dead man. She grew up in the Finnish cold, and the American winter wants her. It has not gotten her yet.Then a voice on a crank radio offers water, a gate, and work. She walks to the red barn because her rations are going to run out, not because she believes in kindness.Callum Hollis meets her in the loft with her rifle on his chest. He walks her to the wall anyway. William Dunn runs the Hold: eighty-six people, a ration board, and a locked office above the turbines. He looks at her hands. He looks at her mouth. By the end of the first week she is on her knees for extra meat, and she stays because walking away from these hot men into the drift is not a choice.Two men, one wall, and a town that seemed like a safe haven.Then the east ice breaks at two in the morning, and the Hold is gone.The Hold is Book One of Ash Winter, a dark reverse-harem romance set after the bombs. It contains explicit sex, dubious consent, and graphic violence. Beware of this warning before you buy.