Hope is all we have left. No one knows how to help, where help is, or if they will ever get help. Some ask a mighty being above to help. Someone who probably doesn't exist. But it gives us hope and the courage to keep moving forward. Four months. That is how long Harlow has survived the rotting remnants of the world alone. Four months of carrying the crushing guilt of a best friend's ultimate sacrifice. Survival is a lonely, brutal routine-until the day the infected corner Harlow, and a scruffy stranger named Ed intervenes. Ed is an older man with a hollow look in his eyes, haunted by the recent loss of his own family. In an apocalypse where the living are far more dangerous than the dead, a fragile alliance forms. Trapped together against the horde, both must face the deadliest question of all, In a world gone mad, can you truly trust a stranger with your life?