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K.A. Seger

Love stories for the end of the world.
Broken people. Brutal worlds. Love that chooses to stay.

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About the author

Hope is not soft here.

K.A. Seger writes emotionally raw post-apocalyptic fiction about damaged people finding reasons to keep moving. Her stories blend grounded survival stakes, dark humor, slow-burn intimacy, and the messy work of choosing other people when isolation would be easier.

Expect morally complicated survivors, practical danger, hard-won tenderness, and found families built one impossible decision at a time. In K.A. Seger’s worlds, love is not a cure, and staying alive is only the beginning.

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The Unburied · Book One

We Will Never Have to Bury Each Other

She lit a candle. He chose to answer.

Ashlynn has thirty-one pills and no plan. Leith has eleven days and too many plans. When her candle draws him to a dark Park Avenue apartment, the safest choice is to walk away—but he answers the light.

Their escape from New York becomes an intimate, dual-POV story of addiction, survival, slow-burn trust, and the found family neither expected to choose.

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The dead are everywhere. Staying human is the hard part.
“At the end of everything, we still choose each other.”
Ashlynn, Leith, and Katrina travelling through a ruined world
The world

North is not a destination.

New York has gone dark, but it has not gone empty. The dead drift through streets, stadiums, parkways, and suburbs. The living build new systems from ration tables, claims, ledgers, weapons, wells, and rules.

Every shelter offers safety from something. Every shelter asks for something in return. For Ashlynn, Leith, and Katrina, north is the next decision—and becoming a “we” may be the most dangerous choice of all.