Outlander meets Mad Max in this dystopian action romance told in addictive bite-sized episodes.Mid-list author Alex Baker has created a heroine his readers root for, look up to, and believe in. And now he's going to kill her. He wants a poetic ending, but more importantly, a final one. No more sequels. The books have hardly launched him to fame and fortune. It's time to let the series die and focus on something more important-like resurrecting his failed marriage. But before he can finish the final installment of The Useless series, a car accident transports him to the dystopian world of his books. Wasteland. A chain of islands filled with garbage and criminals.Mabie Nightlady doesn't know she's a character in a book. Once the wife of the second most powerful man in Wasteland, now she leads the Useless-a group of outcasts fighting against slavery and genocide. To her, it is not a story. It is her life, and after the recent death of the man she loves, it has lost its meaning. Still, she will finish what she started and lead the Useless to freedom...or die trying.When Alex appears in the Useless hideout with no explanation of where he came from or how he arrived, Mabie is suspicious but she takes him in. Suspicion eventually transitions to attraction and Alex realizes he's taken over the character of her future lover. He doesn't want to give in to temptation, fearing that to Mabie he is merely a stand in for the man she lost. The man Alex killed off in the previous book.Meanwhile, the story is continuing with or without Alex there to write it. Which means Mabie will die. As their relationship grows, so does his desperation to save her. But can he change the story from inside its pages?
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