Beneath the Dark Water

The Smiling Flu ended the world with a grin. What came after wiped the smile away.
Rachael is haunted by the girl she couldn’t save. Sarah will cross a dying country to find the child she still can. And Mike—the first to fall ill—holds the cure, the cause, and the guilt of too many years.
As a new stage of the sickness awakens something violent in the Unrecovered, three strangers are drawn together by grief, vengeance, and the flicker of something like family.
At the end of the road waits a frozen farm, a false prophet, and a final choice: who we save, and what we’re willing to become.
Beneath the Dark Water is a lyrical, unflinching journey through the wreckage of plague and the weight of survival. For fans of The Road, The Passage, and Station Eleven.

Len M. Ruth is the author of horror novels The Pull, Rachael's Apocalypse Dairy I & II, The Unrecovered, and Tales of the Doomed. His stories were published in the anthology Satan Rides your Daughter, and featured in the Flash Fiction Forum. You can find his novels wherever fine eBooks are sold.

Len is part of the LGBTQ community and lives with his partner, Em, and dog Cooper in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada.