'everything is grey; his hair, his smoke, his dreams'
dixie cooper was a girl of fire, ice and everything in between. she grew up looked down on, treated like the ugly duckling of her family and her 'friends' were no friends at all. when she made it into the real world, life took her in with loving arms. she made a life for herself as a journalist, questioning things daily. but when she is sent into the heart of atlanta for an urgent paper in the middle of the night, a zombie apocalypse occurs, causing her to be mixed into a flurry of people, old and young, black and white, nice and...not so nice. how will dixie deal with the new grim reality of 'survival of the fittest' along her found family and a rivalry with a certain dark-haired, mysterious redneck?
trigger warning: details of blood, gore, alcohol, gun usage, swearing, death,
mentions of: physical abuse, overdose, sexual assault, miscarriage, cannibalism, intimate moments, verbal abuse