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Ivy doesn’t look like much. She’s quiet, competent, forgettable by design. But she’s carrying the aftermath of an Enclave experiment that never should’ve existed. Taken just as radiation began to change her, Ivy was infected with a prototype virus meant to halt ghoulification. Across the wasteland, the virus failed—mutating, killing, or doing nothing at all.
With Ivy, it worked too well.
She never finished turning. Frozen at twenty-eight, suspended between human and ghoul, her body became something unnatural: stable, altered, and unknowingly invaluable. After escaping, she buried the truth and survived by keeping her head down—until the bounty exposed her existence.
What neither of them understands at first is that Ivy’s blood heals Cooper. Not like chems. Not like stimpaks. Something deeper. Slower. Real. Stronger. Addictive.
Around her, he decays less. When he drinks her blood, he heals completely.
She becomes the one thing he’s never had in the wasteland: relief.
As the line between protection and possession blurs, Cooper must confront what he’s becoming—and Ivy must decide how much of herself she’s willing to give to stay alive in a world that only sees her as a resource.