BOOK 1: When The World Died (Completed)
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Book 1: When The World Died
(The Beginning Of The End)
The world didn't end with a bang. It rotted.
One second, everything was normal. The next-everything collapsed.
Death came fast. What followed came faster.
The dead didn't stay dead. They kept moving. And they didn't stop.
December Hayes was never meant to survive a world like this-soft, untrained, unprepared. But survival doesn't care who you used to be. It strips you down and forces you to become something else.
Saved by a stranger who trusts no one and trained like a weapon just to stay alive, December is thrown into a reality where hesitation gets you killed-and mercy can be more brutal than death.
Because out there, the infected aren't the only monsters.
And sometimes, the most dangerous thing in the world... is still human.
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