Book 1: The light still on: a walking dead fanfic

In a world reclaimed by the dead, survival is a cold, mechanical instinct-until two broken souls collide in the wreckage. Tess Richards, a woman who spent her life becoming an "invisible ghost" after a childhood tragedy, finds herself swept up in a desperate caravan of survivors fleeing the ruins of Atlanta. Amidst the chaos of the apocalypse, she crosses paths with Daryl Dixon, a volatile hunter who has spent his life as a shadow on the fringes of society.

As the group faces the horrors of the CDC and the treacherous Georgia wilderness, an unlikely and fierce bond ignites between the orphan and the runaway. Together, they must navigate the visceral terror of the new world and the haunting ghosts of their pasts. In the silence of abandoned libraries and the heat of a storm-drenched cabin, they discover that while the old world is ash, the most dangerous and beautiful thing left to fight for is each other.

A tale of grit, visceral intimacy, and the defiant hope found at the end of the world.