Broken Hymn

A post-apocalyptic dark romance, bloody southern gothic, and religious horror about a woman being hunted by a divine cult and the monster of a man whose devotion to her has teeth—for fans of C.J. Leede's American Rapture and Brynne Weaver's Butcher & Blackbird.

After the Reckoning, the South didn’t die, it turned holy. When the world ended in fire, ash, and scripture, and what crawled out of it was enclaves, trailer-kingdoms, and cults that learned how to turn fear into law.

Selah Crow has spent her whole life behind a fence she thought was built to keep monsters out. But when the Iron Gospel comes for her, they come like a sermon: quiet, certain, and hungry. By morning, Selah’s life is soaked in blood, her sister is gone, and the only man dangerous enough to help her is the one every ruined thing in the South knows to fear.

Malek Vane, known as the Crownless Wrath, is a cult-raised monster and a man who doesn’t kneel for God. He knows what the Iron Gospel wants from Selah, and that saving her might mean dragging them both back into the holy rot that made him. Selah should run from him, but in a world where prayers rot, monsters hunt, and men call cruelty salvation, she learns the most dangerous thing left isn’t the end of the world.