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Dakota Miller learned two things quickly after the world ended:
Walkers aren't the scariest thing out there.
Trust gets people killed.
At fourteen, surviving alone has made Dakota sharp-edged, guarded, and impossible to read. She keeps to the woods near an abandoned prison, watching the people inside from a distance while trying to ignore how badly she wants to belong somewhere again.
Then Carl Grimes notices signs someone's been out there.
Missing supplies. Footprints near the creek. A girl hiding in the trees with bruises she tries too hard to cover.
Carl doesn't trust her.
Dakota doesn't care.
At least, that's what she tells herself.
But as the walls around the prison begin closing in and the world outside grows deadlier, the line between enemy and family starts to blur.
And somewhere between survival and grief, Dakota realizes the most dangerous thing about the apocalypse isn't the dead.
It's having something left to lose.