Hearken

Harriet was isolated in a deafening silence, when she had lost her ability to hear after a gruesome car accident that shattered her dreams of the future to pieces. Struggling to adapt to this new lifestyle and learning sigh language just to communicate and get by. Harriet always found herself as the odd one out at school, around others, and with life all together. That was until an alien invasion erupted on earth, transforming the world into a apocalyptic dystopia, as they robbed humans of there hearing with a mass frequency used to obliterate anyone within a mile radius. And causing humans who saw even just a glimpse of them, become "black eyed walkers", slaves of the alien army. Harriet and her family do everything in there power to stay safe, but after a series of tragic events, five years passing, and Harriet being the only member of her family left alive, who now has a child of her own, a dog she accompanied along the way of survival, and a husband she fell madly for. She deals with the weight of protecting her family on her own as well as more survivors, and trying to change what brought the world to an apocalypse, back to normal. Could Harriet be capable of saving the rest of mankind from the aliens possession without using her hearing or sight? Read to find out, in this coming of age story: "Hearken"