Rio Ember was twenty-three when the world ended for him.
Or so he thought.
He woke to the hiss of machinery, to light bleeding through frost. His cryo-pod cracked open, spilling him into a world that was not Earth. His breath came ragged, burning in his chest as if he were drowning in air itself.
He stumbled forward, catching sight of his reflection in the polished metal floor - long golden hair matted to his skin, sharp jawline smeared with thawing frost, and eyes of a piercing, unnatural green that seemed almost too alive. A man with indeed desirable physical traits that looked like a high king from a fantasy world.
He should have been relieved. Instead, dread took root.
The ceiling above stretched into an alien sky - stars scattered in strange patterns, constellations he didn't know. This wasn't home. He searched his memory for answers, but the past was gone, torn away by the cold grip of stasis. Who had put him here? Why?
Silence pressed down on him like a weight. Not a voice, not a footstep, not a sign of anyone. The loneliness hit him harder than the cold. He staggered between rows of shattered cryo-chambers, each one empty, each one dead.
Then the madness began to creep in. His hands shook. His chest tightened. Was he the only one? The last survivor of a world long buried?
And then - he wasn't alone.
They emerged from the shadows, one by one. Figures with curves and forms that stirred instincts deep within him. Some human, impossibly young and flawless. Others alien, with beyond unexplainable and alien-like appearances. All women. All beautiful. All watching him with an intensity that made his stomach twist.
As their eyes locked on him, Rio felt it - the truth that shattered what was left of his sanity. He was the only human male left alive.
And every woman in this new world would fight, kill, and burn for the chance to claim him.
The last man. The last desire.
And all women would fight, kill, and go to war for him.
Rio Ember was no longer just a survivor.
He was the prize.
An ultimate prize.
What would be his fate in the story?