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She once held children's hands. Now she holds a gun.
Before the fall, Odessa Void lived a life of quiet resilience-juggling medical school and working as a teacher's aide, finding purpose in the laughter of children. One of them was Sarah Miller, bright-eyed and full of promise. Her father, Joel, was just a face in the crowd, a quiet man Odessa spoke to only a handful of times-but something about him stayed with her.
Then the world tore open.
In the chaos of outbreak, Odessa lost everything. Her younger brother-the last of her family-was ripped from her arms. Grief forged her into something else: hardened, careful, lethal. FEDRA took her in, trained her, and used her. For years she taught in their military school, clinging to the innocence of the children around her to keep herself from becoming what they wanted. Among them was Ellie-sharp, restless, too smart for her own good.
But Odessa saw what FEDRA was turning them into: soldiers. Weapons. And she couldn't stay.
She vanished into the ruins, surviving alone-until a supply run gone wrong brings her face-to-face with the past: Joel Miller, now hardened by time, and Ellie, still burning with that same fire. Recognition flares between Ellie and Odessa.
Joel doesn't remember-at least not right away. But something in Odessa pulls at him.
In a world built on ash and blood, the three are bound by survival-but tied together by something quieter, older, and far more dangerous: memory.
And in the wreckage of what was, memory may be the closest thing left to home.