Zariyah Reed, a 32-year-old single mother, works on a construction crew where she's the only woman and Black person, facing daily harassment. Though she endures their taunts to support her 14-year-old daughter, Teyana, the abuse escalates one day when her male coworkers assault her, leaving her stripped and humiliated. A police officer rescues her, but the emotional toll is overwhelming. Back at home, Zariyah, wrapped in shame and fear, struggles to face her daughter and the future.
When many in her village fall sick, the young ranger Adela is sent to explore the ruins of a nearby hospital in search of medicine. But on a Fallen Earth danger lurks around every corner and what she finds there will not leave her unchanged. WARNING: Graphic depiction of rape.
A story in the New Order Universe
It's the first year of the female supremacist New Order government in the UK. David Anders' diary tells how it was to live through those changing times, coping with the Male Control Force, regulations that threaten to trip him up and the whims of women newly empowered with state-sponsored femdom attitudes.