Quinn Brassett

When the fires finally die, the real cost begins. The world did not end in a single flash. It burned - slowly, relentlessly - until cities became husks and nations dissolved into ash. Now survival isn't about strength. It's about choices. In the ruins of a collapsed society, trust is currency, water is power, and every alliance carries a hidden price. As scattered survivors struggle to rebuild something resembling order, old loyalties fracture and new threats emerge from the smoke. Because in a broken world, survival is never free. And the price of ash is always paid in blood. The Price of Ash is a tense, character-driven post-apocalyptic thriller about survival, morality, and what remains when everything familiar is gone.

The sea remembers what we try to forget. In The House at Tide's End, Mara inherits a remote coastal house perched on a causeway that vanishes at high tide - a place her family has guarded for generations, and a responsibility no one ever explained. When the tides begin rising too early and voices move through the walls, Mara discovers the truth behind her mother's death and her aunt's isolation: the house is not a home, but a boundary. Beneath it waits something ancient, patient, and hungry — a presence bound by ritual, flame, and sacrifice. As the sea pushes closer and the past resurfaces, Mara must decide whether to continue a legacy built on fear, or break it entirely - even if doing so costs the house, the dead it contains, and the last illusions of safety. Atmospheric, mournful, and quietly terrifying, The House at Tide's End blends coastal folk horror, supernatural dread, and literary grief into a story about inheritance, choice, and what it truly means to let something go. Some houses protect you from the sea. Others keep it fed.