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Post-apocalyptic survival. Dangerous cities. Hidden systems. A world where daylight itself has become a threat.
For readers who want a dark world to disappear into.
A dark psychological thriller about memory loss, captivity, trauma, and a woman trying to discover what was done to her.
For readers who want tension that lives inside a single mind.
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The Fast Moon Series
A post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller series about survival, control, and what's left standing after everything else has fallen.
Book One in the Fast Moon series
Fast Moon
The sun is deadly. The cities are controlled. Survival means obeying systems built long before you were born — until one woman becomes the thing they failed to contain.
A dark dystopian speculative thriller where heat, survival, control and hidden systems reshape ordinary life.
Book Two in the Fast Moon series
Flood
The flood is not just water. It is a system failure. It is the past breaking through. It is what happens when the world you were told was safe turns out to be the most dangerous place of all.
The world below the surface begins to fail. Flood continues the Fast Moon series with rising water, buried systems, control, survival and truth breaking through sealed walls.
The Years They Took
Originally published in Estonian as Ära võetud
She wakes with no memory, a body that knows pain before her mind can explain it, and the terrifying certainty that someone else knows exactly what happened to her.
A psychological thriller built on memory, control, and the unreliability of what we're told to believe. Winner of the fiction category of the Bestseller literature competition in Estonia.
What kind of darkness is this?
These are not cosy survival stories. They are stories about control, memory, identity, and the cost of staying alive when the rules are already broken.
Dystopian cities built on secrets
Women under pressure, not waiting to be rescued
Psychological tension and buried trauma
Survival choices with moral cost
Ruined worlds that feel uncomfortably close to possible
Reelika Lootus
Reelika Lootus is an Estonian author of dark, post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction and psychological thrillers. Her novel Ära võetud won the fiction category of the Bestseller literature competition and is being prepared for English-language readers as The Years They Took.
She writes about control, memory, survival, and the systems that shape human lives — because these questions matter, and fiction is the best place to ask them without flinching.
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