Beneath the Ash Above the Hate

In a world buried beneath volcanic ash, humanity survives underground sustained by one carefully maintained resource: love. Not the complicated kind — the approved kind. Scrubbed of anger, edited of grief, refined until it is gentle, manageable, and safe. Elara is a historian tasked with keeping it that way, until a signal from the supposedly dead surface finds her — ragged, relentless, transmitted by someone who has no rational reason to keep trying. What she finds above ground will shatter everything the colony was built on. Because they didn't just ban hate. They banned everything that makes love worth having.Beneath the Ash, Above the Hate — Book One of the Ash Series. By Marina Ashgrove.