Survive the underground. Scavenge the resources. Save the women.
Life beneath the ashes of the old world has never been easy.
For Ethan, though, it was simple in Refuge. Living in a small settlement inside a big cave and carving out a life with his little community was all he had ever known. It wasn’t a happy life, but there was little joy in a post-apocalyptic subterranean nightmare besides with the people you fought to survive with.
And then he lost it all in the blink of an eye.
His home destroyed, his friends and family slaughtered, he is abruptly thrust into a new life after being forced to flee to a large settlement where he knows no one and has nothing.
As he meets and begins to fall in love with Ember, a beautiful woman in a bad situation, and the pressure of trying to make a new life for himself mounts, Ethan soon finds himself thrust into the lethal world of scavenging for crucial resources out in the underground, where anything and everything lurks in the shadows…
I am Misty Vixen (not my real name obviously), and I imagine that if you’re reading this, you want to know a bit more about me.
In the beginning (late 2014), I was an erotica author. I wrote about sex, specifically about human men banging hot inhuman women. Monster girls, alien ladies, paranormal babes. It was a lot of fun, but as the years went on, I realized that I was actually striving to be a harem author. This didn’t truly occur to me until late 2019-early 2020. Once the realization fully hit, I began doing research on what it meant to be a harem author. I’m kind of a slow learner, so it’s taken me a bit to figure it all out.
That being said, I’m now a harem author!
Just about everything I write nowadays is harem fiction: one man in loving, romantic, highly sexual relationships with several women. Nowadays, I tend to write more human on human stuff, but I still have a lot of non-human ladies in mind for the future, so if that’s your thing then stick around.
I’d say beyond writing harems, I tend to have themes that I always explore in my fiction, and they encompass things like trust, communication, respect, honesty, dealing with emotional problems in a mature way…basically I like writing about functional and healthy relationships. Not every relationship is perfect, but I don’t really do drama unless the story actually calls for it. In total honesty, I hate drama. I hate people lying to each other and I hate needless rom-com BS plots that could have been solved by two characters having a two minute conversation.
I really enjoyed this book. It was one of those books where you're a little bit sad for it to end. It had a good ending, though there was a lot of adversity and death, but the community was saved. So the book follows Ethan who was the only survivor of the town called Refuge. Every one has to live underground because wars have destroyed the surface. During the wars, mutagens were used as a weapon on the surface, to destroy life. Some of the mutagens have found the way underground with life that had to flee the surface. That has led to mantises (a human preying mantis hybrid), strikes (a mutated wolf) and wraiths (a midget human chameleon that can turn almost invisible). Ethan survived because he was a crawler (someone who explores the vast, which is all the area outside a settlement) and he wasn't home when the attack came that destroyed Refuge. He makes his way to a bigger settlement, a small city called Waypoint. There he starts with nothing, but he finds a young attractive woman named Ember living in his assigned housing. They soon become lovers and he ends up become a crawler for the city of Waypoint. The book follows Ethan and Ember as he tries to keep the city safe and with her help try to make the Pit (the city slums) a better place to live. A good book.