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Synopsis
FIRST by Ali Hazelwood A general plans to use a nobleman's bride to teach him a lesson. After meeting her, he decides to keep her for himself. BAIT by Adriana Herrera Alma Corvado has spent all her twenty-nine years believing there was no world beyond the bunker she’d always called home. Bound by duty and the fickle whims of the council, she has only ever indulged in one simple rebellion. When her act of defiance finds her being pushed out into the dangers of the outside, she discovers that the world never ended. When she’s rescued from the clutches of dangerous raiders by the two people she thought were lost to her forever, Alma must confront the truth. Everything she thought she knew about the end of the world was a lie. SKYN by Nikki Payne When Fawl's ex dumps her for her stepsister, she takes the messiest deal imaginable: dig up dirt on an Elite family for a golden ticket out of the Underground. Simple, right? No. Now she's somehow *Checks Notes* married to an emotionless machine who's weirdly obsessed with her skin. M.A.Y.A. by Nina Saxena In an effort to escape a war-torn dystopian planet where she would be used as a weapon to hurt innocent people, MAYA searches for a way to stop her captors by fleeing through one of six dimensions in a hidden bunker. There, she meets a pack of shifters and an alpha determined to claim her as his fated mate. For content warnings go to aftertheendromance.com.
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After the End: A Dystopian Romance Collection Volumes 1-4: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This anthology contains explicit sexual content, power imbalance dynamics including captivity and forced marriage scenarios, dystopian violence, and mature themes about survival and deception in post-apocalyptic settings.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, explicit sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include kidnapping, captivity, and deception (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers who enjoy steamy romance will be captivated by these intense dystopian love stories with high stakes and complex power dynamics.