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Dawn In Ruins: An Australian Post Apocalyptic Romance
Paperback
Series: The Distorted Horizon, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 6 2025
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The world ended in silence. The fight for what's left will not.
Ten months after the collapse, teenager Annie's world has shattered, and with it, everything she once believed about monsters. They don't always lurk in shadows. Sometimes they wear uniforms. Sometimes they wear the faces of those you love.
In the ruins of Sydney, Annie finds an unlikely ally in Jude-a half-infected boy marked by virus and twisted science. His strange, dangerous abilities make him both a threat and their best hope. But the line between abomination and saviour is thinner than either imagined.
Haunted by what was done to him, Jude carries scars deeper than flesh. Meanwhile, Annie's younger brother, Lucas, remains a prisoner, infected and altered. If she doesn't reach him soon, Lucas will face the same fate that nearly destroyed Jude-experiments that don't just scar flesh but twist what it means to be human.
As secrets unravel and the origin of the virus comes to light, Jude learns a devastating truth: his connection to the outbreak is deeper, darker, and far more personal than he ever imagined.
Together, Annie and Jude race through a city where every shadow hides a threat. When they are torn apart, survival becomes more than a mission-it becomes a promise: to endure, to protect, and to bring each other back from whatever hell awaits.
From the shattered edges of the Fractured Reality universe comes a story of desperate hope and fierce loyalty-because in a world this ruined, some things are lost forever. But some are worth risking everything to save.
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