"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Oscar Wilde Paige Hanson has already lost everything to the State. Her husband is dead. Her son is in hiding. Her mother is a revolutionary with blood on her hands. And now Paige holds the one thing that could destroy the system that tore her family apart: a cure. In a fractured society ruled by an elite council known as the Téssera, reproduction is controlled, dissent disappears overnight, and loyalty is enforced at gunpoint.
When Paige is spotted inside the Settlement she once called home, a city-wide manhunt begins. With assassins closing in and her estranged husband-now President-broadcasting her name across public systems, Paige must decide how far she is willing to go to save humanity. Distribute the cure. Or sacrifice herself trying. In a world where power is inherited, truth is manipulated, and motherhood is weaponised, one woman is about to prove that maternal instinct is the most dangerous force of all.
Maternal Instincts is a gripping dystopian political thriller about love, betrayal, survival, and the cost of saving the world.
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." - Oscar Wilde Paige Hanson has already lost everything to the State. Her husband is dead. Her son is in hiding. Her mother is a revolutionary with blood on her hands. And now Paige holds the one thing that could destroy the system that tore her family apart: a cure. In a fractured society ruled by an elite council known as the Téssera, reproduction is controlled, dissent disappears overnight, and loyalty is enforced at gunpoint.
When Paige is spotted inside the Settlement she once called home, a city-wide manhunt begins. With assassins closing in and her estranged husband-now President-broadcasting her name across public systems, Paige must decide how far she is willing to go to save humanity. Distribute the cure. Or sacrifice herself trying. In a world where power is inherited, truth is manipulated, and motherhood is weaponised, one woman is about to prove that maternal instinct is the most dangerous force of all.
Maternal Instincts is a gripping dystopian political thriller about love, betrayal, survival, and the cost of saving the world.