Ashes Between Us

**The world didn't burn. It bled.**

And seventeen-year-old Cristine watched it all fall apart,from behind locked doors and barricaded windows. Her family had done everything right: stocked supplies, sealed their home, survived. Until one desperate knock shattered the illusion of safety.

Now haunted by the memory of her mother's sacrifice, Cristine flees into a broken world with her father and little brother. They find shelter in a twelve-story school-turned-society, one of the last remaining strongholds. Walls keep the monsters out. Rules keep survivors in line. And to pretend life is still normal, school is back in session.

In a classroom filled with ghosts and whispers, Cristine meets a boy who shouldn't exist-charming, closed-off, and hiding secrets bigger than the outbreak itself. He sees her, truly sees her, and in the ruins of everything, they begin to fall.

But peace never lasts.
When the infection breaches the walls and chaos erupts, survival becomes a ticking clock. Love becomes a weapon. And sacrifice... becomes inevitable.

**In a world devoured by the dead, how do you hold on to something worth living for?**