SURGEON (2024)

Set about 15 years after the world fell apart, a nomadic physician struggles to survive in a savage frontier of the poor and powerless, trying to balance her calling as a healer with the necessity of killing for survival.

Stuck in the fort of Turtle Island, Dr. Hanover sees the signs and delivers extremely bad news-the Hot Animal Machines are coming. The fort had better get ready for violence they can't imagine-but she can. She's seen it, beaten it. Can she help these dirt-farmers do the same?

Last anybody heard, the Hot Animals had Turtle Island choked down under siege. The good people of the fort are overwhelmed in numbers and by the insanity and violence that has arrived outside their walls. But nobody said Dr. Hanover was "good people." The Doc came looking for work, but it's time to go. Between her and freedom, the vicious siege rages. She'll have to cut her way out.

Hanover fought her way through the chaotic siege of Turtle Island and found a rare thing in the process - a friend. Now that friend has made a terrible mistake at a moment when she needs him most.

On the frontier, favors are currency. Promises are law. Without them, what have we got? What have we got to lash out and rebel against when word is bond and your oath was to "Do No Harm"?

Painty is stolen, Little Bird is on the run, and Hanover is furious and alone, on the wrong side of a whole bunch of burned bridges.