Ashes and Daydreams
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Darlena's life is normal. She lives with her mother, father, and sister, Anna, in a small Milwaukee apartment beside Lake Michigan. She remembers a calm, peaceful life in Wyoming, where she used to live close to her relatives, but she was forced to move because of her father's job as a freshwater ecologist wanting to study a great lake as opposed to the geysers and lakes of Yellowstone National Park. But her grandmother Nanna's heart attack forces her parents to return to Wyoming at the worst possible time.
Left with her aunt, Lindsey, and her sister, Anna, life continues--until the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. Without warning, ash, smoke, and poisonous gasses cover the entire country and fill the entire atmosphere, throwing Darlena's normal life into a paralyzing turmoil. Left only with the food in her pantry and daydreams, Darlena is forced to make many difficult decisions to adapt to a world covered in ash and air that could kill her with just one breath. Will she survive the devastating Yellowstone Supervolcano and the catasrophe that follows, or will she, too, become part of the ashes?
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