The Tracker's Broken Compass

Hallow Creek survives because nobody has ever found it. Calla Ives makes sure of that. Two years after the collapse, the settlement's only tracker is not looking for love. She is looking for the stranger at the fence line — a limping botanist with the last cassava cuttings in the country and a compass that hasn't pointed north since the power went out. The council wants him gone by morning. Calla wants him gone by morning. She walks him back out anyway, and doesn't stop walking with him for a full growing season. But Hallow Creek can't stay hidden forever, and when a rival outfit finds the road in, Whit has to decide whether to run with the thing he came to protect or stand a wall that was never going to hold. A warm, meticulous post-apocalyptic survival romance for readers who believe the end of the world is mostly about growing things anyway.