The Waking Hours

The war ended. The world never recovered.

Ashlin has lived her whole life in the shadows, hidden by a mother who warned her: you are being hunted. Now her mother is gone—murdered on the open road—and Ashlin is alone in a broken country where small communities cling to survival in the ruins. But Ashlin carries a secret even she doesn’t fully understand: an identity buried since birth.

When her path collides with Doc’s, a man tied to her past, Ashlin discovers the truth of a secret military division that once turned gifted teenagers into supernatural weapons of war. Its survivors are scattered and dangerous. And Bennett, the program’s ruthless founder, is hunting them all—especially Ashlin.

Now, Ashlin must decide whether to keep running or face the truth of who she is. The world has already ended once.
In the waking hours of what remains, her choice could determine if it rises again—or falls forever.