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QUEEN OF THE ASHES

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On the day the world ends, Mara Chen loses everything in sixty seconds. Her boyfriend hands her supplies to someone else. Her best friend locks the shelter door in her face. And the man who drags her out of the rubble is Kael Drayven, the cold, ruthless survivor everyone in the wasteland already fears. The System gave Mara the rarest build in the apocalypse. Nobody knows it yet. Not even her. Kael needs a Base Commander to hold his territory while he fights on the front lines. She needs walls, food, and a reason to keep breathing. The deal is simple. The feelings are not. But when Mara's ex comes crawling back with an army behind him and a lie on his lips, she has to choose between the girl who survived and the queen she is becoming. She picks the crown.
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