Juniper Unraveling

Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told.

Most of them begin years ago, after the second bomb hit and unearthed a contagion that divided what was left of the population into three groups: the pure, the infected, and the Ragers. Many recount the moment the survivors rose out of the ashes and started again. Others tell of the day they built a wall to keep them out. And some stories are nothing more than the vestiges left behind — a name cut into the knotty bark of a juniper tree.

Wren's story begins with a boy. A mute, from the other side of the wall, known only as Six. He touched her heart in ways that words never could, and gave her the courage to face her darkest truth.

Juniper Unraveling is a full-length dystopian romance set in a post-apocalyptic world, and it is unflinching about what people do to each other when the rules are gone: human experimentation, organised cruelty, and the machinery built to sort human beings into categories. Keri Lake publishes a trigger list for this series, and readers should treat it as required reading rather than a formality.