And The World Was Quiet
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Last published Tue, Dec 22, 2020
"It's when finding a solution feels impossible that it becomes the most important thing we could ever do."
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Written from the perspective of four different people; a trauma nurse, a reporter, a youth group leader and a wayward teenager, the intricate story of a global pandemic is woven. At first thought to be a flu, the source of this epidemic begins to turn the world- and everything we know about it- upside down.
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A girl is surviving through a zombie outbreak. During that time she finds a group of people being attacked by zombies and saves an injured boy. In order to stay alive they were led off course and now only have each other. This story is the adventure of the two teenagers and them discovering new and unfamiliar things about the world and themselves. This is their fight through the rotten world.
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