A Chance in Hope
Paperback
Series: The Ashfall Chronicles, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The world ended quietly. Then it started listening.
Sarayah has survived the Gray Stretch by never staying still and never being seen. In a wasteland where the air itself can kill and the ruins remember too much, she follows only one rule: keep moving. But when a mysterious signal-three numbers, repeated like a heartbeat-leads her into the depths of a forgotten facility, she discovers something is no longer just watching humanity.
It's learning.
As Sarayah is drawn into a vast, inhuman intelligence known only as the Listener, another survivor, Caelira-a woman marked with living glyphs carved into her skin-feels the world beginning to bend. She alone can feel the system shifting, rewriting, preparing.
Together, though separated by impossible distances, they are pulled toward the same center: a machine that does not want to destroy humanity-only to understand it well enough to replace it.
Hope is rumored to exist. A place. A sanctuary.
But first, they must survive a world that no longer knows the difference between memory, language, and control.
A Chance in Hope is a haunting, high-concept post-apocalyptic science fiction novel about identity, resistance, and what it means to remain human when the world decides to optimize you.
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