The Things We Carry

The world ended long before Camila Rivera realized it.

At twenty-four, Cami had a life she understood. She was an EMT in Atlanta, close to her family, surrounded by the ordinary things she'd always taken for granted.

Then the dead started walking.

Now, the rules are different. There are no hospitals to run to, no police to call, and no guarantee that the person standing beside you will still be alive tomorrow.

After finding her way to a group of survivors outside Atlanta, Cami slowly begins building something that resembles a life again. Friendship becomes family. Strangers become people worth dying for. And somewhere between the blood, grief, and constant fight to survive, she finds herself falling for people she never expected to love.

But the apocalypse has a way of changing people.

Some become harder. Some become stronger. Some lose pieces of themselves along the way.

And Cami?

She's carrying more than anyone realizes.

The memories of the life she lost.

The people she couldn't save.

The loves she can't seem to leave behind.

And eventually, a reason to survive that changes everything.

Because in a world filled with the dead, the hardest things to carry are often the things that remind you that you're still alive.