128 parts Complete In the ruins of a world overrun by the dead, survival isn't the only battle.
Alyssa is just a troubled teenager. A high school dropout, living with her mother Alice foley. She didn't expect the world to end, and far less to lose her mother so quickly. She never knew her father, her mother kept him a secret.. leaving Alyssa growing up with many unanswered questions.. until her mother was about to die.. and said his name. 'Rick grimes.' Alice' encouraged Alyssa to set out to find her father. Find the man who she'd thought about her whole life. This unknown stranger.
When Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find the world in shambles, his mission is clear: survive and reunite with his family. But in this brutal new reality, his past comes back to haunt him in ways he never anticipated. He discovers Alyssa, the seventeen-year-old daughter he never knew existed, born from a high school romance he left behind. Now, they must navigate the fragile boundaries of family amidst bloodshed and betrayal.
As Alyssa struggles to find her place in a group that sees her as an outsider, Rick faces an impossible task-reuniting his fractured family. Lori, his wife, battles her own feelings of betrayal and jealousy, while Shane, Rick's best friend, whose loyalties waver as his dark desires push him closer to the edge; threatens to take the very thing he's fighting for.
Daryl Dixon the mean and hard headed redneck sparks a weird friendship with Alyssa..seeing her as an extension of himself.
In a world where the dead roam freely, can family ties survive the weight of secrets, guilt, and jealousy? Or will the haunting shadows of the past be their undoing?
Blood runs thicker than water, but in a world gone mad, nothing is certain.
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