Salt & Bone Series
Survival has a body count
In a post-apocalyptic world fractured by loss, betrayal, and the thin line between science and survival, one wrong move can cost more than your life. In the Salt & Bone series, loyalty is tested, trust is fragile, and every promise comes with a price in blood.
Series Premise
Audience
Adult fiction readers who love high-stakes survival stories (The Last of Us, Station Eleven)
Status
In Beta
Books
Salt & Bone, Salt & Bone: Ashes, Salt & Bone: Reckoning
In a post-apocalyptic world fractured by loss, betrayal, and the thin line between science and survival, one wrong move can cost more than your life.
When a mutating virus turns the promise of a cure into a new kind of nightmare, survivors are forced to navigate a world where science, morality, and survival are at constant odds.
Dr. Lisa Calloway, a sharp-minded ER doctor, and Jack Reynolds, a battle-scarred mechanic haunted by his past, form an uneasy alliance to protect their fractured family. From fortified safehouses to the shadowed halls of the CDC, they face relentless outbreaks, human predators, and the weight of secrets that could destroy everything they’ve fought to save.
In Salt & Bone, loyalty can be lethal, trust is currency, and every choice demands a sacrifice—sometimes of the people you swore to protect.
Reading Order
SALT & BONE
When a mutated virus shatters the fragile peace of a fractured world, ER doctor Lisa Calloway and battle-scarred mechanic Jack Reynolds are forced into an uneasy alliance.
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From fortified safehouses to the CDC’s shadowy halls, they fight to protect the children in their care—while navigating outbreaks, human predators, and the dangerous secrets that could destroy them all. Survival demands trust, but trust may be the deadliest risk of all.
ASHES
In the aftermath of their narrowest escape yet, Jack and Lisa’s fragile family is scattered by loss, betrayal, and the relentless reach of the virus. As old ghosts resurface and new enemies close in, every choice cuts deeper—and every alliance comes with a price.
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With survival balanced on a knife’s edge, they must decide what they’re willing to burn to keep the people they love alive.
RECKONING
Months of searching have led to a single thread—and the horrifying truth behind the CDC’s cure. As the virus resurfaces in terrifying new ways, Jack and Lisa are thrust into a final, desperate gambit to rescue the children and expose the lies holding their world together.
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Old enemies return, family ties are tested, and survival comes down to one choice: protect the truth, or protect each other.
Meet the Characters
Author Note – Ami Wilde
Why I wrote Salt & Bone
Salt & Bone began as a question I couldn’t shake: What happens to people when survival stops being enough?
I’ve always been drawn to stories about the edges of human endurance—the moments when morality, loyalty, and love collide under impossible circumstances. But I wanted to explore those questions through deeply personal stakes, where the monsters are both outside the walls and inside the people you trust most.
Lisa and Jack’s world is shaped by resilience, sacrifice, and the kind of complicated relationships that don’t fit neatly into “good” or “bad.” They make mistakes. They hurt each other. And they keep going, not because they’re fearless, but because they’re afraid—and they choose to fight anyway.
This series is my love letter to survival thrillers that leave you breathless, the found families who hold us together, and the quiet truth that sometimes the hardest battles are the ones we fight with ourselves.
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