What Remains: Book One | Post Apocalyptic Gay Romance | Paper Moon Bay

Pre-order now. Publication date: 15 January 2027.

What Remains is a post-apocalyptic gay romance about first love built in the ruins of everything familiar.

The storm that hits the quiet village of Oakley one autumn night doesn't just knock out the power. It ends the world Bailey Vylan has always known.

Bailey has spent his life folding himself smaller than he actually is, quietly anxious, quietly closeted, quietly certain that the safest way to exist is to take up as little space as possible. When the storm gives way to something far more catastrophic, Bailey finds himself alone in a version of home that no longer resembles anything safe: empty streets, dwindling supplies, and the growing, terrifying knowledge that whatever happened didn't just hit Oakley, it hit everywhere.

Then he finds Benji. Or Benji finds him.

As the two of them build something like a life out of the wreckage, scavenging, surviving, falling for each other in the cracks between fear and found comfort, they discover they are far from the only people left. Some of what's out there is dangerous. Some of it is armed, organised, and hunting.

What Remains is a post-apocalyptic new adult romance about first love built in the ruins of everything familiar. Book One in a series that does not pull its punches.

Genre & trope tags: new adult romance · post-apocalyptic romance · gay NA romance · LGBTQ+ fiction · survival story · found family · series starter