num_pages: 292
description: Alone in rural Indiana with only the clothes on her back 25 year old Anna is almost ready to give up on trying to live in a world that has seen the recent slaughter of her childhood tribe and the murder only a year later of her best friend and only surviving tribe mate. When Anna interrupts an attack on a beautiful woman lounging by a lake she is subsequently drawn into the relationship of two other survivors of the young idealistic Elin who welcomes Anna into their makeshift family with open arms and her lover the older more jaded Kael whose dark and brooding nature initially keeps Anna at bay. While Anna and Elin fall into affectionate interaction that quickly turns romantic - with Kael's permission - Anna and Kael have a more difficult time learning to live with one another. Their mutual love for Elin sees them through a rough start and soon they develop a tentative but genuine friendship. The threesome is journeying south for the winter season when an unexpected accident leaves Elin severely injured and unable to defend herself from the constant threat of attack that is a part of their everyday lives. Making the decision to nurse Elin back to health in the relative safety of a city Kael and Anna soon find that tensions rise as their relationship is strained by their concern over Elin's condition and Kael's resulting emotional distance from Anna. When Elin is threatened yet again this time by a group of religious fanatics who believe that a woman's duty in the post-apocalyptic world is to bear children and work towards repopulating the earth Kael and Anna's fragile bond will be tested once again as they find the need to work together to save the woman they both love.
language: English
title: The Three
publisher: Quest Books