Severed (Affliction Z #5)

Severed (Affliction Z #5) by L T Ryan is out now, published February 21, 2026.
Severed (Affliction Z #5)

Author: L T Ryan

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Published: February 21, 2026

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Severed (Affliction Z #5) Release Date: February 21, 2026
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The fluorescent lights hum forty feet above the Pit. The gate opens. And the smell hits first.

This is the world now. Warlords trade ammunition for human lives. The afflicted grind their teeth behind steel gates, waiting. And the people caught between them survive by staying quiet, staying useful, and never letting anyone see them think.

Sean Ryder has been quiet for weeks. Playing dead inside a madman’s compound, counting the guards, learning the rhythms, mapping the walls. His daughter is out there somewhere. His wife is in the ground. The only thing keeping him alive is the same thing that’s keeping him caged — he’s useful.

Three hundred miles away, Turk counts the days in a cargo hold. Rationed water. No light. And a crew of prisoners who are either going to fight their way onto a ship or die in the hull.

The fifth entry in L.T. Ryan’s Affliction Z series is a white-knuckle descent into captivity, desperation, and the brutal arithmetic of what it costs to survive when the people you love are on the other side of a wall you can’t break through.

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Genre: Horror

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