The Outcast Bride’s Retribution

In a wasteland where the only rule is to survive in pairs or perish alone, the warlord has ordered every exile to enter a survival marriage. Christine chooses a scarred, silent man to share a dead canyon homestead, but she keeps a secret from him: her touch can coax water and crops out of poisoned red clay. He believes he is shielding a fragile outcast, while she quietly builds something far larger. The warlord's arrival threatens to destroy everything she has built.