Ryco
Rowan Hale spent seven years giving everything to her husband Dominic Pryce and his family: her savings, her career, her health. When the dead rose in the winter after the Great Flood, he had one seat left on the evacuation truck, and he gave it to his mistress. Rowan’s own sister was the mistress, and the child Rowan had raised as a nephew was theirs. Rowan died in the snow with the truth in her mouth like ash.
Then she woke up in her own bed, with ninety days left on a clock only she could see.
Rowan walks away from the marriage on day one. She has no tears left, only a paper trail and a grandmother’s sealed inheritance that her husband never knew existed. She sells what the end of the world will make worthless and buys what it will make priceless. A strange spatial ability she barely understands is awakening in her hands. The whole neighborhood thinks grief has broken her mind, and her ex-husband is already circling her new money.
But this apocalypse is wrong. The weather is turning too early. A silent, watchful neighbor with a soldier’s eyes keeps noticing things about her that no stranger should. And someone is moving through Rowan’s carefully rebuilt life who seems to remember the first timeline too.
She died once because she trusted the wrong people. This time she’s counting every day.
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