What Remains: A Gritty Age-Gap Post-Apocalyptic Romance
About
The world ended. But in the silence, two survivors might find something more dangerous than death – connection.
After society collapses under nuclear fire and plague, 17-year-old tech scavenger Alex Reyes flees the ruins of Portland with a backpack full of salvaged electronics and a desperate dream of rebuilding.
Diana Morrison, a 44-year-old former corporate VP hardened by loss, escapes Salt Lake City with nothing but a rifle and an iron will.
When their paths converge at a remote mountain cabin, trust is a luxury neither can afford. He’s impulsive, brilliant, and starved for connection. She’s guarded, pragmatic, and unwilling to let anyone close.
But winter is coming fast – and in a world overrun by the infected and fractured by fear, survival means sharing space, secrets… and something even more dangerous: hope.
As the firelight flickers and days grow shorter, their uneasy alliance deepens. Her maternal instincts blur with forbidden desire. His adolescent longing sharpens into love – messy, sincere, and all too real.
Can two fractured souls build something worth living for in a world that’s already ended?
A slow-burn, emotionally intense post-apocalyptic romance about survival, intimacy, and the fragile line between dependence and devotion. For readers who crave both grit and grace.
Praise for this book
I found What Remains to be a captivating story with great imagery, action and descriptions, putting me right there in the middle of the story. I like how Alex and Diana, being almost 30 years apart in age, have different views of the apocalyptic world they live in. The younger wants to build a new world thought his inventive skills which he learned on Youtube, while the older just wants to survive the next week, with her the businesses mind and experiences of the supply chain world. Their relationship changes through battles, danger, trauma and the will to survive even with their differences. They both have their own unique skills which help them and a small community close to them. I will be on the lookout for more by this writer.