Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)

Ashes (Post-Apocalyptic Fairy Tales #2)

Author: Claire Kent Listening Length: 4h 34m

She needs to escape her stepmother, and he’s the only prince around. Ever since my father died and my sister left, I’ve been trapped in a life of drudgery with a stepfamily as wicked as the storybooks say. Life after the apocalypse offers few choices, and I only have three. I can stay and be miserable. I can die in t...

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Every Friday since I was twelve, I’ve done laundry for the entire household.

For the first part of my life, all household chores had to be done by hand.

When the asteroid hit Europe in the event we now call the Fall, the entire planet was thrown into chaos and all order and infrastructure everywhere collapsed.

Life in this region was as rustic and uncivilized as the rest of the world until President Patterson took control, stabilizing and securing first the Capitol, then all the towns and villages surrounding it, and then all the nearby larger cities.