(Rough Draft)
 
COMING SOON
 
The world ended slowly—then all at once.
In the fractured remains of the American South, fourteen-year-old Charlie survives alone on what’s left of her father’s hidden homestead. Nestled near the heavily guarded border of the Blue States, her life is quiet, isolated, and dangerous. Bandits roam. Resources vanish. The government is a memory, and faith has turned into fanaticism.
 
All Charlie has are the green peppers she grows—and the voice of her dead father in her head.
But when a strange reaction in her garden sets off a chain of unexplainable events, Charlie discovers that her peppers aren’t ordinary at all. They're evolving. So is she. Something ancient, maybe even powerful, is waking in the soil.
 
As word of her crops spreads and violent eyes turn toward her land, Charlie faces a choice: stay hidden in the ashes, or become the spark no one saw coming.
 
Charlie and the Seed: The Girl Who Grew Fire is a haunting, slow-burn tale of survival, resistance, and the unexpected power of a single seed.