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The world ended. His wife betrayed him. Now he’s stuck on a tropical island... with twelve beautiful women—and a deadly secret beneath the sand.

Jude thought escaping the zombie apocalypse on a cruise ship was salvation.
He was wrong.

After a cruel twist of fate leaves him stranded and betrayed, he wakes up on an island that seems like paradise—but the truth is far more dangerous.

He’s not alone.
Twelve mysterious women.
No way out.
And the undead? They're not the only threat hunting him.

Will Jude survive the secrets of the island… or become part of them?

Stuck in an Island with Twelve Beautiful Women

Lucy nodded, arms wrapped around herself. "It's not lust. Not memory. Not pain."

"It's everything," Rose said softly, standing barefoot at the spiral's edge. "It's the truth of all the spirals combined."

The air shifted again, and they all felt it - pressure. But not heavy. Not oppressive. It was possibility. Potential. The sixth spiral was no longer waiting. It was inviting.

A voice came then - not Alara's, not the woman of fire, but something in between. It echoed from the air itself, soft, distant, and unmistakably intimate.

"The sixth spiral is synthesis. All that you are, all that you've denied, and all that you've yet to become must meet now."

Jude stood, the weight of the spiral drawing his spine straight, his breath slowing until he could hear every heartbeat in the chamber. He turned slowly, looking at each of his wives.

Natalie was glowing again, her freckles dusted with flickers of starlight.

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