A married couple stranded at an Amazon eco-lodge as distant Manaus begins to burn

Coming soon · Long Way Home · Book One

We Were Never Meant
to Be Here

The pandemic begins in the Amazon. Their children are waiting in Manhattan. Getting out of the jungle is only the first impossible mile home.

An adult marriage-in-crisis survival romance by K.A. Seger

Before New York went dark

Day Zero belongs to another hemisphere.

Paris and Rhett came to the Brazilian Amazon to repair a fourteen-year marriage already fractured by betrayal. At a remote eco-lodge south of Manaus, reports of a “super flu” become military checkpoints, rolling blackouts, and the dead walking beneath the canopy.

Rhett understands more than he has admitted. Paris has spent a lifetime believing the right argument can move anyone. Neither is prepared for a world where airports close, rivers become roads, and every helper names a price.

Their ten-year-old twins are home in Manhattan. The only direction that matters is north—but the long way home crosses a continent already beginning to burn.

We were never meant to be here. But we are here together—which is more than we managed at home.
Adult post-apocalyptic fictionSurvival romanceMarriage-in-crisis romanceZombie horror

The shared pandemic

The beginning

Brazil · Year One

Manaus falls months before the United States. The same infection has a different regional name: the Anhangá.

The marriage

Paris + Rhett

Not strangers falling in love, but two people deciding whether a damaged marriage deserves to survive with them.

The destination

Manhattan

Readers of The Unburied know what waits in New York. Paris and Rhett only know their children are there.

Cover forthcoming

The journey has key art. The book cover comes next.

This page will grow with the series: cover reveal, release date, reading links, and the next leg of the route will be added as they are announced.