Moonshine

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When I started college in Seattle I expected that I would change. What I didn't expect was that I would change into someone starving filthy and prone to sleeping tangled in blackberry bushes to protect myself from predators of the animal and human variety.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No one knows why the lights went out. One minute there was Instagram and ice cream and the next nothing. Black. Darkness absolute.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>There was power rumored in the east settlements with wind energy that were still thriving amidst the chaos. I fled the west coast with a small group chasing a sliver of hope. That hope was quickly snuffed out leaving me all alone in the world.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until I wasn't alone. They found me deep in the forest. I ran and they gave chase. Death was on my heel when I landed at the feet of an unwilling savior. With a cabin a farm and a lifetime of survival skills Joshua was the perfect companion for the apocalypse. If only he wanted companionship.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's hard to earn his trust and even harder to keep it. At a glance he seems to be nothing more than an off-kilter backwoods prepper with a grudge against humanity. The longer I look the more I begin to see the man behind the harsh words and unkempt beard.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As reluctant as he is to keep me Joshua just might need me. After all no one survives the end of the world alone.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Moonshine is a slow burn new adult romance in a dystopian/end of the world setting. Sensitive readers should check the trigger warnings before reading. It is not a closed-door romance but it is low on the spice scale.</em></p>