Any Who Ask

Twenty minutes into the end of the world, Mack Doyle, the night cook at a roadside diner on I-80, is named Keeper of a Haven: a place nothing can enter by force. There are three Rules. No blood shall be drawn beneath this roof. Any who ask for shelter shall be given it. The hearth shall not go cold.

At four in the morning, the waitress who went home sick at midnight is standing outside in the snow, smiling, asking to come in.

Mack has thirty days to learn what the Rules protect, what they cost, and whether the one thing keeping his people alive is also the thing that will kill them. He levels by keeping the door open. He cannot fight under his own roof. And something in the dark is learning the wording.

A system apocalypse LitRPG: warm, plainspoken, and frightening in the same breath.