Metallic Heart: A Cozy Post-Apocalyptic Romance (Fade)

When she was a young girl, Eloise was involved in a car accident. Blunt force trauma to her spleen resulted in its removal and less than a year later, she lay dying. In their grief, her parents brought her to their colleague, a woman named Joy Pierce, in the hopes that she would save Eloise's life. She said no. Desperate, Eloise's parents secretly injected her with the nanite serum they, Joy, and a handful of other scientists had created. She survived. But with that gift came a heavy responsibility that wouldn't come to fruition until five years later. As the only person in the world with nanites in her blood, Eloise visits a seventeen-year-old boy named Seth, every three months, to save him from his fatal brain disease. When her attempts are in vain, his mother, Joy Pierce comes for Eloise's blood. She barely escapes with her life, helped unwillingly by a man from her past. This man, named Bannack Owusu, has lived a live full of treason and betrayal, forced to collect people for Joy's human experiments. Once she asked him to kidnap a girl, he left Joy's service, abandoning the promise Joy made to wipe his memories clean and free him of the image of his mother and sister's dead bodies. Reunited once more, after they spent ten years apart, Bannack and Eloise traverse their new realities: Bannack realizing that he doesn't want to be alone anymore but struggling to redeem himself for the crimes he committed while in Joy's service, and Eloise learning that she must respect Seth's decision to stop treatment, even if it means his mother tries to kill her. They find allies on their journey, Eloise and Bannack fall in love, and both begin healing from the trauma of their past. Seth begins to take his life into his own hands. In the end, Joy pays the ultimate price. Seth survives, but he leaves her forever alone.

• | Author: Liahona West
• | Publisher: Blackbriar Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 15, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 426 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1736820648
• | ISBN-13: 9781736820643