Against all odds, Ara and Kayden have escaped the clan. Together they’ve set out to finally discover the truth about what’s happened to Ara’s family—to go back to the beginning as her father instructed. To understand how and why the plague started. To rebuild their lives. To start again.

Only life in The Last City is less than idyllic. There’s something nefarious at play, and Ara can’t get a straight answer from anyone. And then, one night Kayden is forced to go on an expedition . . . and he doesn’t return. Ara and Kayden are once again on the run for their lives, and from the one place they thought they could finally call home.

Meanwhile, Kayden left his brother Sam for dead—but Sam, too, survived. And he’s been hiding, trying to figure out how to make his way back to the clan, back to Kayden. When he encounters a mysterious stranger, he has no idea how close to Kayden and Ara he actually is . . . and that who she is will connect them in ways he’ll never expect.

Set immediately after the events of The Last She, H.J. Nelson’s The Last City is a gripping story of three people desperate to survive against all odds, and realizing that love is the only thing worth living for.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
H.J. Nelson is an Idaho native who graduated from University of Wisconsin with degrees in creative writing and wildlife biology. She began writing on Wattpad in 2015, where her story The Last She was one of the most read science fiction stories in 2016 and 2017. Since then her works have been optioned for television by Sony and garnered over twelve million reads. She has also written for brands like General Electric, Writer's Digest, and National Geographic. When not writing, Nelson has lived on a boat in the British Virgin Isles, worked in two zoos and ridden an elephant through the jungles of Laos—though she considers raising two daughters her most dangerous adventure yet. You can sign up for her newsletter at hjnelsonauthor.com, or find her on Instagram at @h.j.nelson.