Distance Between Us

"For years, the distance between us felt impossible. But every step forward made it smaller."

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Distance Between Us

When the world ends, sixteen year old Diego Alvarez loses everything in a single day.

Separated from his family during the outbreak, he's left with only one certainty: somewhere out there, his younger brother Michael is still alive.

Years pass. Cities fall. Communities rise and disappear. Alongside a small group of survivors, Diego learns how to navigate a brutal new world where danger lurks around every corner and tomorrow is never guaranteed. Through loss, sacrifice, and impossible choices, the group becomes more than friends, they become family.

Among them is Nolan, a survivor who has stood beside Diego through every tragedy, every close call, and every impossible choice. As the years pass and the world continues to crumble around them, their friendship slowly becomes something deeper, something neither of them expected to find after the end of the world.

Then, just when Diego begins to believe the past is gone forever, a single lead changes everything.

Michael might still be alive.

Determined to find the last piece of his family, Diego sets out on a journey across a fractured country to follow a trail that's gone cold. With Nolan at his side, he'll face infected hordes, unforgiving wilderness, and the ghosts of the people they've lost along the way.

But as the distance between the brothers begins to close, Diego discovers that finding Michael may be the easy part.

Holding on to the people he still has might be much harder.

Distance Between Us is a heartfelt post-apocalyptic coming-of-age novel about hope, found family, grief, survival, and a love that endures even at the end of the world.