The Burn Line (The Divided Collapse, #4)

Some roads end in safety.
Others end in choices that burn everything down.
They've survived longer than anyone thought possible.
After the devastating losses in The Long Divide, Anneliese Morgan and her brother Caleb are finally within reach of the Montana border—and their father's fortified homestead. But the road to safety has carved pieces from their souls, and the people they've become barely recognize the family they used to be.
Annie is harder now, shaped by choices that would have broken the girl she was. She trusts Dax—the quiet, unreadable man who never promises more than he can deliver. He's steady when everything else shifts like smoke. He's honest when everyone else is lying to survive. And that terrifies her more than any militia or checkpoint ever could.
Because trusting someone means they can destroy you.
Caleb has finally found his footing with Evie—the girl he left behind, the woman who stayed when everything else fell apart. For the first time since the collapse began, he can imagine a future. Something real. Something worth the blood and loss it took to get here.
Then the radio crackles with a name.
A survivor list from the northern camps.
His fiancée is alive.
The woman he thought he'd buried with the old world. The woman he'd grieved for, moved past, let go. She's out there, waiting, believing he's coming for her.
Now Caleb must choose between the love he lost and the love he found. Between the man he was and the man he's become. Between honor and survival, duty and desire.
And Annie must decide if the sister she's become is someone she can live with.
When every choice leaves scars and every path leads through fire, some burns go so deep they never heal. Some choices change you so completely, there's no going back to who you were before.
The Burn Line is the devastating fourth installment in The Line North series—where love becomes a weapon, hope becomes a burden, and the only way forward is through the flames of who you used to be.
Perfect for readers who crave heart with their heartbreak, and aren't afraid of stories that leave marks.