Daryl was always a cold person. But that day when I said 'I do', I knew that there was a caring and selfless man inside him. And I hated to admit it, but I missed him. I gazed ahead into the scenery beyond the RV, of criss-cross dirt roads, lush trees and misty night skies. 'I miss you so much, Daryl Dixon.' I confessed to the stars. ** What if Rick wasn't the only coma patient left to die in the hospital at the start of the apocalypse? What if a woman who was beaten into a coma awoke in the very same room as Rick a few days before him? And what if that woman just happened to be Daryl Dixon's newlywed wife? Follow Erin Dixon, previously Erin Leigh, as she joins Rick on his quest to find his wife and son, and finds her long lost love along the way, with many unanswered questions, lies and secrets threatening to tear them apart... again. *Important - I do not own any of AMC'S The Walking Dead scenes, dialogue, or plot lines used in this fanfiction. I only take full rights of my original add ons to the scenes and dialogue, and all my original characters *

In which there is no apocalypse, and a girl who's lost hope meets a man who's lost his purpose.

Book One. Complete. Arden was a fighter, or as Daryl liked to call her- a firecracker. But when Arden's brother goes missing that fire starts to die out and she is faced with a decision: stay with the man who saved her life or leave to find the only family she has left.