Scavenger's Prize : A Dark Post-Apocalyptic Romance #924635

In the radioactive wastelands 150 years after the Fall, Lyra Thalyn is dying. Radiation poisoning courses through her veins as she scavenges the ruins of a dead civilization, searching for technology that might save her life. When she discovers a sealed cryo-pod in the Meridian Wastes, she triggers a beacon that draws the ruthless Rust Covenant—warlords who rule through terror and genetic purification.
Inside the pod lies Draven Solis, a scientist from Before who created the Genesis Protocol—technology designed to heal Earth but weaponized into the catastrophe that destroyed civilization. His fractured memories hold coordinates to Sanctuary, humanity's last hope for planetary restoration. But the Covenant's fanatical leader Kaelion wants him dead—or worse, wants to force him to finish what he started by purging the "genetically contaminated" from Earth.
Bound together by a desperate medical procedure that ties their lives biochemically, Lyra and Draven must cross hostile wastelands, face buried secrets about their families' roles in the apocalypse, and reach Sanctuary before Kaelion's armies. But the facility holds a devastating truth: activating the restoration system requires a human sacrifice, and the choice between saving Earth and saving each other will force them to decide what redemption truly costs.
In a world where love is a luxury and survival demands impossible choices, can two broken people carrying the weight of inherited sins forge hope from humanity's ashes—or will the past's mistakes condemn them all to extinction?