Len M. Ruth

The smiling flu ended the world with a grin. What came after wiped it away. Rachael is still picking up the pieces: radiation-poisoned, quietly in love with someone who'll never love her back, trying to build a life from what's left. Sarah just wants to keep her daughter safe in a new, dangerous age. Neither of them asked to get tangled up with the Prophet - the only man who can give the unrecovered back their joy, and the one person the wrong people will do anything to control.
Sarah will burn down the world to find her daughter. Rachael will throw the gasoline. Beneath the Dark Water is a lyrical, unflinching journey through the wreckage of plague and the weight of survival. For fans of The Road, The Passage, and Station Eleven.