The Last Clean River

The world's water is dead.

Choked by chemicals, rationed by corporations, and fought over in grocery aisles, humanity survives on contamination and denial. But somewhere beneath the ruined surface, one river remains untouched-hidden, alive, and willing to destroy anyone who tries to own it.

When Ezra stumbles into the secret of The Last Clean River, he believes he has found salvation. Instead, he finds a judgment. Guarded by a ruthless collective who understand that purity can only survive through secrecy and sacrifice, the river offers no comfort-only revelation. One sip exposes the truth inside a person: their hunger, their capacity for violence, and the lies they tell themselves about morality.

As desperate voices from the surface beg for clean water, Ezra is forced into an impossible role-deciding who deserves to drink and who must be denied. Every choice carves a new wound into his conscience, and every act of mercy threatens to map the river's location and doom it forever.

Dark, gothic, and psychologically devastating, The Last Clean River is a dystopian horror novel about power, scarcity, and the unbearable cost of protecting something pure in a world that consumes everything it touches.