The Last Face You See

For twenty years, Rose Chima perfected the art of comforting the dying, whispering promises of peace while subtly redirecting their legacies into her own hands. Now, in a world ravaged by an infection that leaves the dead reanimated with only their final conscious memory, those carefully crafted lies are coming back to haunt her. As the walled settlement of Havenwood struggles for survival, Rose finds herself face-to-face with a familiar, decaying figure at the fence—a man she just helped sign away his life. The dead are rising, not with rage, but with a chilling, singular focus: the last face they saw, the last voice they heard, the last person who took everything they had left. Can Rose outrun the hundreds of ghosts she created, or will her past finally catch up to claim its due?

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