Code Red: No Cure. No Warning. No Mercy.

Eighteen-year-old Elani Howards tells the story of how the world ended...

But here's the truth-no one ever really knows how the world ends.

There's no warning label. No dramatic announcement. No guarantee that you'll be the hero who saves everyone or discovers a cure that changes everything.

That's not me.

I'm not a scientist. I'm not a soldier. I'm not the girl who saves the world in the final chapter.

I'm just... normal.

A regular teenage girl who thought she had time.

And I guess that's the part that hurts the most.

Because the world doesn't always end with fire or explosions or some movie-style disaster.

Sometimes it ends quietly.

In a blink.

And for me... it did.

I don't know exactly why it started. Not yet. Maybe I'll figure it out as I tell this story. Maybe I won't.

But I do know this-

Everything I knew. Everyone I loved. Every normal, boring, safe part of my life...

Changed in a single day.

So this isn't a story about a hero.

It's a story about survival.

And how fast everything can fall apart when you least expect it.