Sealed Gates

Eight months after the outbreak, Arden Knight drives through the night to her father's estate in the Appalachian foothills. General Flint Knight spent eighteen years building the Hive: the fence, the cabins, the Protocol facility, the preparation. He built it for a catastrophe. He did not build it for his daughter to arrive with five men and thirty survivors and the particular, complicated problem of being human in the middle of one.

Jax checks the fence before anyone asks him to. Ghost watches the perimeter in the dark. Silas reads every room. Leo makes a community out of strangers. Reed reads terrain the way other people read faces. They followed her here. They are staying.

Arden didn't plan for any of them. She planned for the fence to hold, the generator to run, and the signal she's been monitoring for three weeks not to go to full broadcast. Two out of three isn't bad.

When the Vantage Collective activates its command signal and the infected outside the fence stop wandering and start waiting, the Hive has four days. Maybe fewer. Arden has six men who have chosen her, seventy-four people who are trusting her, and a father who built this place as an act of love and has never once said so.

The fence will hold. It was built to.

So was she.

SEALED GATES is the first book in The Hive Protocol series - a slow-to-medium burn post-apocalyptic reverse harem romance with action, found family, and a heroine who files her feelings for later and is slowly, helplessly, running out of later.