Poison Coast

A dead coastline stretches for hundreds of miles, and the only person walking it is a former forest ranger who has sworn off every human connection. Anya Trager has survived five years of nuclear fallout alone—until she discovers a starving, mute boy hidden inside a beached trawler. He carries no weapons, no supplies, only a secret drilled into his memory by a dead mother: a formula that could purify poisoned water for thousands. But dangerous men are tracking the child, and Anya must decide what she's willing to risk for a world she stopped believing in.