Six months ago, Indy Sargent's mother vanished in the middle of the night, leaving her with no note and a whole lotta questions.
Now, she lives down in Alexandria with her best friend Judith, doing her best to keep out of trouble and not give in to the desperate ache inside of her. The ache that wonders, constant and bitter, why her mother didn't take her with her. Maggie took 𝘩𝘦𝘳 son. Why did Indy's mom just leave her behind?
But when she meets Negan, the man nobody seems to want to talk about, the ache finally starts to fade a little. Despite what everyone says, Negan is kind. He wants to be her friend. After all, it must be lonely down there in his cell, with no one to talk to all day, and Indy knows what it's like to be lonely.
But there is more to Negan than it seems. There's a reason he's locked away, out of the sunlight and the town, and that reason is much closer to Indy than she thinks.