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Amari Dawson has spent her whole life figuring out how to disappear. Locked in her room by a stepfather who sees her as less than nothing, she's survived by staying small, quiet, and out of the way.
Then the dead start walking, and disappearing is no longer a choice.
Thrown into the chaos of a city overrun by the rising, Amari finds herself navigating broken friendships, buried secrets, and a world that keeps demanding more from her than she thinks she has to give. But something is changing-in the world, and in her. The scratch on her arm that should have killed her didn't. The wounds that should hurt don't. And the veins creeping beneath her skin aren't going away.
Amari has always been told she's nothing. But she's starting to think they were wrong about her all along.
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Content Warning: This story may contain mature and explicit themes such as graphic violence, and mental health (such as trauma, anxiety, depression) which may not be suitable for all audiences.
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