Beneath the Carnage

Claire

Everything we’d been through was enough to send me running, but Mason refused to give up on us. He told me what would happen if he won this war. I understood the position he would take and the things he would be required to do. I accepted it, loving him enough not to care about that burden.

But was I prepared for what would happen if he lost?

There was an entire future I never dared to consider, one he had warned me about from the beginning. His past coming back to haunt me. Would I escape with my life this time?

Mason

I spent a lot of time fighting the darker parts of myself, rifling through different sanitized versions to find one I could tolerate. Nothing ever fit until I found Claire, and then everything fell apart.

In the face of all that tragedy, I found the life I wanted. All I had to do was take this city for myself so the woman I loved could be safe.

I didn’t know it had already been taken.

With all of my efforts pointed in the wrong direction, could I defeat an enemy I didn’t know I had?