Fable For the End of the World

Fable For the End of the World combines the intensity of The Last of Us with the intrigue of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.

In this epic standalone dystopian romance from the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth, readers will find an irresistible tale perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Last of Us.

By encouraging massive accumulations of debt, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town, barely scraping a living from their taxidermy shop. Their mother, however, has secretly accrued enormous debt. The only way out is to offer her daughter as a sacrifice for Caerus's livestreamed assassination event—the Lamb's Gauntlet.

Melinoe is the assassin chosen for this spectacle. As the product of years of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she's a living weapon, famous for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. Yet, she's haunted by her failure in the last gauntlet, when she broke down live on screen.

As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, each is determined to claim victory. Yet, they begin to question what they've been taught. Could there be more to life than survival? Could they be capable of more than death?

Could they, against all the odds, be falling in love?