Ada Walker is a rejected, forgotten about 8 year old girl that will be forgotten about as soon as she dies. She's raised herself since she could walk; buying her own clothes with money she saved up, fixing up the grazes on her knees, fixing her own problems and teaching herself how to do things that your parents should teach you. But her mom was always too drunk to do that or she just was too busy going to bars. Her daddy didn't like her much, not that that was surprising. She didn't like herself much either. Ada had herself and herself only.But what you wouldn't expect to change that is the end of the world and man eating monsters trying to munch on your bones. Getting stuck in traffic on the highway outside Atlanta may have been the best thing that ever happened to her because if she wasn't there, she'd still be alone.