When the world burned, survival was only the beginning.
London falls in a single night. Sirens fade, streets rot with silence, and the dead no longer stay dead.Elena, a paramedic and mother, flees through the collapsing city with her daughter Maya and a handful of survivors. But every refuge turns to ruin - the police stronghold, the shadowed suburbs, the tunnels beneath the ash.Worse than the infected are the living: the torch-bearing cult who call themselves the Flame. They claim the only salvation is fire - for the dead, and for the living they deem "unclean." Hunted by zealots, stalked by eyeless horrors born of ritual, Elena must fight not only for survival, but to protect the one thing the fire cannot cleanse: her child.
The Cleansing is Book One of The Ash Chronicles - a relentless descent into fire, ash, and the thin line between humanity and horror.