The Last Crow Keeper of Kansas
Messages Carried on Black Wings

About this book:

In the sun-scorched ruins of western Kansas, the internet is a myth, radio is static, and the only thing stitching the scattered settlements together are black wings and brass capsules. Silas Finch tends the last roost of *Corvus brachyrhynchos telegraphus*—genetically engineered crows with titanium ports, violet eyes that read the earth's magnetic highways, and synthetic marrow hungry for grease. At fifty-two, he's the final link in a dying chain, trading dried meat for messages carried through dust storms and feral hawk territory, watching his flock dwindle from three hundred to seventy-eight.

When a massive raven-hybrid crashes at his tower dragging a glass vial of refined tallow and a charred note—*Hays Station down. Keeper Cole dead. North vector dead*—Silas realizes the collapse isn't coming. It's already here. The northern circuit has severed. Elgin Station is now the endpoint of a shrinking world, and Cleo, his fastest carrier, is already three hours out into a darkening sky where the thermal ribbons are tearing apart.

Haunting, gritty, and utterly original, *The Last Crow Keeper of Kansas* follows one stubborn man and his mechanical flock across a landscape where a message is worth more than gold, and every flight might be the last. For readers who loved *Station Eleven* and *The Road* but crave something stranger—where biology meets brass, and hope travels on engineered wings.