Saints of Small Mercies

Cecilia Sutton has spent most of her life being useful.

Useful enough to raise Carl Grimes while his parents' marriage rots behind closed doors. Useful enough to help Daryl Dixon keep his daughter afloat when there's more work than money and never enough of either. Useful enough to survive her father, her poverty, and the suffocating expectations of a small Southern town that mistakes suffering for virtue.

By the time the world ends, Cecilia has already lived two lives.

Then the dead rise, secrets stop mattering, and the men she has loved in different ways are finally forced to see each other - and her - whole.

A dark, slow-burn Walking Dead AU about faith, motherhood, survival, and the making of an unconventional family.