Nate Keller is finished with the end of the world. After barely surviving a brutal run across the country he heads back to his old place in West Texas. All he wants is a quiet break from the fighting. Just some dirt under his nails, a few rows to tend, and enough food to get by without dealing with orcs or worse. But the land out here has gone strange. His plants start drinking blood from the things he kills and the more he feeds them the stronger they grow. Before long the garden is pushing back against anything that comes over the fence.
With nothing but a pruning knife and some old know how Nate turns his patch of ground into something that fights for itself. Every beast that shows up gets turned into fuel for the rows and every drop makes him tougher than he has any right to be. It is not the peaceful retirement he pictured but it beats running. Until the bigger things start noticing what he has growing out there.
