In 2011, a plane full of bug repellent was sent specifically to Canada from South Africa. Except it didn't make it to Canada. The plane was secretly flying over the North Atlantic Ocean on it's way to Canada when the blizzard started. Snow coming down in clumps and blocking the pilot's vision, he was controlling the plane downwards without even noticing. Now tired and half-asleep, the pilot continued heading downwards slowly, until the plane was over Virginia. The winds picked up, and the man lost control of the plane. The plane was blowing downwards faster, and the plane crashed into an open field somewhere near Richmond, Virginia. As soon as the plane hit the ground, the man was dead instantly. The impact of the plane from hitting the ground made the cans of bug repellent explode and break open. The repellent got into the air, and all spread all over Virginia, and soon enough, all of America. The gas inside the cans wasn't any ordinary bug repellent. The containers contained some sort of virus. A deadly virus that killed the people who came in contact with it. People who breathed in, or came in contact with the gas died, but didn't stay dead.
Mya King was a ordinary young woman before everything started. A few weeks after her 21st birthday is when everything happened. Mya, along with the rest of the survivors are thrown into a world where you trust nobody, and its every man for themselves. How Mya fights to survive, is completely up to her.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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