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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

Delilah stepped forward, face flushed and damp with the afterglow of the spiral's union. "I saw something in it when we merged," she said. "Not a baby. Not exactly. But a seed of everything this island could become."

"It's a future," Mae added. "But it depends on us."

Jude reached out slowly, letting his fingers graze the air just above the cradle. A wave of warmth surged through his arm and into his chest, spreading down to his legs, grounding him to the moss. It wasn't pain. It was truth. The kind that changed you.

He looked up at the others. "This is why we were called."

Sophie's brows furrowed. "You mean for this?"

"For each other," Jude said. "For this moment. For everything that's coming."

The spiral shimmered again. Then, slowly, the golden light began to pull inward. It flowed from their skin, their breath, their sweat-slick bodies, gently drawn toward the cradle - not draining them, but borrowing. A communion. A request.

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