In The End, You Kill Us Both

How does your rage taste?

It's nearly Halloween, the sky won't stop weeping, and from the guts of Olympia's Eden Valley Psychiatric Unit emerges nineteen-year-old Leo Welch, staggering blindly into the streets of an unfamiliar city where her only company is a peculiar roommate, her two eldest children, and a bizarre collection of ladybug figurines. Jobless, pill-reliant and emotionally wounded, a life spent with one eye glaring at the past and the other squinting fearfully at the future is all Leo knows—until she meets fellow ex-inpatient Elowen Reeves, a mysterious drifter who swiftly captures Leo's attention and emboldens her resentment towards the monster who destroyed her life in Ely.

But when a sudden, horrific event shatters Leo's image of her unusual new friend and sends them both on a dizzying road trip across the American West, Leo must finally face a choice she's spent years ducking from—allow the pain to consume her once and for all, or dive headfirst into the underbelly of her Nevadan hometown to kill her demons before they can get another stab at killing her.

Content Warnings
In The End is an adult novel featuring heavy mature content. Please read at your own discretion.

This novel contains first-person depictions or descriptions of cannibalism, physical and verbal abuse, brutal murder, self harm, mental health crises, and corpses. Massacres, revenge, abuse, drunk driving, and mental health are predominant topics discussed throughout the book.

For a complete list of content warnings, visit V. Ivan's website. Thank you and happy reading.

Pages: 342
Sexual Content: Light, Closed Door

V. Ivan is a literary fiction author from Canada's east coast. When he isn't writing slow-burning angst, he prefers to spend his time watching horror flicks with his wife and foraging in the woods near his home. You can find him (actively) on Tumblr and Instagram.