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The aliens gamify Earth with a cheerful announcement and a body count — and Meghan Moretti has three kids to keep alive through it. Combat classes and monster waves are bad enough; doing it while parenting is the actual hard mode.
Progression: system apocalypse crunch filtered through a family's constraints — builds chosen for babysitting compatibility.
Reader fit: you want a genuinely different apocalypse POV — competent, exhausted, and fiercely protective.
Texture: tense, practical, quietly funny.
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