The Conscript
In a world of men and monsters, two young women's bond is their only defense. Survival demands evolution.
As civilization crumbles, sheltered 17-year-old Hanna is abandoned in a remote cabin. She’s left with a revolver and a single bullet when she’s found by Erin, a fierce survivor who teaches her the first rule: be invisible.
Forced underground by a violent raid, fear and lust braid them together. Their bid for community ends in a warlord's trap, but they’re rescued by Dayton, a renegade biohacker offering an evolutionary gamble. In his farmhouse lab, they submit to CRISPR gene-editing.
Separated and sick, Erin is brutalized by her fanatical uncle until Hanna, already changing, rescues her from the fire. Hanna takes a bullet, but Erin uses Dayton's tech to save her—and completes her transformation. Back in their cabin, the world outside poisoned by radiation, they choose each other over escape, embracing the terrifying power growing within them.
