How Does Ishmael Book End?

The solar flares fried the world A sudden wolf gene turned half the population into beasts. Now humans are either breeders, collaborators, or …dead. I was Rylan's breeder. Until he found his "mate" and told me to run. So I ran. Now I trade my body for shelter. My mouth for food. My cunt for a knife to sleep with. Sex isn't love out here. It's currency… It's the only language the people in this wasteland understand. Four of them want me now. A cursed Alpha who threw me away but can't stop hunting me. A scarred commander with something feral crawling under his skin. A man who remembers nothing of his past yet had never been touched gently in his life. And a wolf lord's son who sees something in me I don't even see in myself. There's also a bandana-faced scavenge, He pins me in the dark and tells me to run. He's not one of the four. He's just the reason I sleep with a knife. They all think I'm just a breeder… warm body…A hole to fill…. They don't know I'm the last one left who remembers what the world was like before the fire. And I'm done being used. Let them come. I'll take their cocks in my pussy, their lies to my ears , their desperate hands on every curve on my body and then?… I'll take their throats.

Humanity has finally done it and destroyed the world. After the spread of the killer virus that no one had a cure for, countries started to fight as greed has pushed them to expand their territories. And in the process, they provoked mother nature to take a stand. The plague evolved into something that twisted and deformed humans; they were neither dead nor alive. Just walking empty husks that fed on flesh and had one purpose, killing. The supernatural were exposed to the rest of the world; as they weren't spared and got affected, too. The result of this knowledge was chaos. Instead of creating one unity, the rest of the living were fighting among themselves and the undead. The entire world turned into a big arena and it was (survival of the fittest).

In shifter society, Eden isn’t the paradise you’re used to hearing about in the Bible. It’s the place where all girls are housed from birth until their 18th birthday. A war between the humans and shifters left the werewolf population decimated and diseased due to poisonous agents used against the wolves. As a result, birth rates of purebred werewolves declined extraordinarily, while the presence of mutant werewolves rose. To combat their fertility crisis, the Elders invented Eden where young girls were kept locked away from society. Their knowledge of the outside world is very limited and their only purpose is to become breeders after their 18th birthday when they are selected by their mates during the Breeding Selection Ceremony. If the girls don’t prove they are purebred wolves or turn into mutants, then they are killed by the Alphas. Imani is shamelessly classified as a Breeder C–the most undesirable amongst the breeders. She hates that the girls are subjected to such barbaric practices and desires to escape from Eden. What she doesn’t expect is to run into Alpha Jackson, the man who was tasked to kill her on her 18th birthday if she didn’t prove to be a purebred wolf.  The Breeding Selection Ceremony commences and Imani is certain she doesn’t have a wolf. As her “sisters” are dying around her, Imani is shocked when Alpha Jackson spares her life. Not only does he spare her life, but he selects her as his Breeder! Alpha Jackson only kills when he’s 100% certain, but there is something off about Imani and the only way he can get to the bottom of it is if he keeps her close.

Floods, tsunamis, heatwaves, acid rain, deep freeze, earthquakes… In her last life, Sophie Zurer survived a grueling eight years after the apocalypse, only for her parents to die tragically while her brother melted in the acid rain. Born again, she avenged her parents, and with a void pocket in hand, she began to stockpile everything from weapons to food, agricultural manuals, and medicine… Eight years later, the city was once again torn apart by earthquakes while the oceans devoured the continents. However, while Sophie survived with her family, the apocalypse cranked up in difficulty as if it were a video game! This time, there were erupting volcanoes, undersea volcanoes, lightning storms, scalding seas, and fireballs falling from the skies… The apocalypse of the land was just the prelude to the apocalypse of the deep sea! Where would humans live when the last island was consumed by the sea?

The Last Alpha — For 200 years, the village of *Oka'ru* has lived in uneasy peace. Behind the mist and the rain, a werewolf pack guards the forest borders, and the humans pretend not to notice. The balance is kept by one rule: the Alpha leads, the village survives. When *Alpha Doran* is murdered by royal hunters during the worst downpour in memory, that balance shatters. His son, *Kael*, was never supposed to lead. Born a werewolf but raised to hide it, Kael spent his life pretending to be ordinary. Now the bloodline has forced the mantle onto him, and his first shift is tearing him apart — body, mind, and control. But the hunters aren’t done. In 3 days they return with silver, torches, and orders to “cleanse” Oka'ru. Inside the pack, half want to stand and fight. The other half want to abandon the village and run into the wild. To make it worse, something _else_ is hunting in the forest. The killings don’t look like wolf work. The tracks are too big. The howls are wrong. And every night the rain gets heavier. The only person Kael can trust is *Amina*, the healer’s daughter. Human. His childhood friend. She’s been keeping his secret since they were 10, and now she’s the only one who can keep him human when the beast wants out. But loving her could get her killed — by hunters, by the pack, or by him. Kael has to choose: Run and save himself, stay and lead a broken pack, or become the monster the hunters already think he is. Because if he fails, Oka'ru burns. And if he succeeds, he might lose the last piece of himself that’s still human. ---

On a stormy night during the apocalypse, my own mother threw me out of the house while I was burning with fever, along with my husky, so my little brother would have a better chance of surviving. She shouted through the crack in the door, “Take that useless mutt and go die somewhere. Stop wasting your brother’s food!” I huddled in a pile of trash with my dog in my arms, convinced I was going to die. Then my husky suddenly spoke. “Host’s vital signs critically low. Infinite Supply Search System activated.” “Supermarket warehouse one hundred meters ahead. Three thousand freeze-dried meals detected.” “Pharmacy five hundred meters to the left. Five hundred boxes of antibiotics detected.” Three days later, I’d built a fortress with packs of dogs and mountains of supplies. I sat inside eating steak and watching the show. Outside the barbed wire, my mother and brother were on their knees, fighting each other over half a piece of moldy bread. I smiled. “Mom, even dogs wouldn’t eat that. Better savor it.”