What the future holds was always a mystery. How you grow, what job you'll have, who will be you're true love. But no one would ever think of a future full of people rising up from their graves, craving the living. Who knew you would have to live in a world with no trust, not many people, and where in a split second, you could die. Courtney lives what she calls a terrible life. She has been living with her dad after her parents divorced at age four. She never thought life could get any worse, until a great disease hit the world. There was no escaping it, and Courtney learns how to fight, how to survive the dead. She meets many people along the way, and learns not to trust people and not to get attached... Even to her best friends. Along the way she even learns how to love, something that even in the world now, she thought could never happen. But what will happen? Will she lose her love? Her friends? Family? Only the future can tell.
This story follows Katie through the final months of her senior year in high school. Her nonexistent relationship with her mother doesn't stop her from living her life to the fullest. Approaching on four years with her high school sweetheart and applying to the same colleges as her lifetime best friend she is anxiously looking forward to the future to come. She's also excited about becoming an aunt and is counting down the days until her older sister delivers. Her nurturing personality causes her to stop and sit with a boy being bullied in her school. He quickly opens up to her, but that relationship may become the most dangerous one yet.
Rated Mature for violence & Mild Sexual Content.