Alexjcreads
Before the world went silent, seventeen-year-old Lizzie Schultz was just trying to catch her breath. A senior swimmer at Needham Broughton High School in Raleigh, North Carolina, Lizzie's life is a blur of early morning practices, grueling school days, and the electric tension of championship meets alongside her best friends, Andrea and Christina. But as the winter of 2020 unfolds into summer, the rhythm of ordinary life-the roar of a pool deck, the echo of a school concert, the whispered secrets at a New Year's party-becomes a countdown.
On June 18, the sky falls silent. Forced to flee the chaos of the mainland, Lizzie and her friends survive the initial wave, only to be swept across an ocean to a United Kingdom that is just as broken. In abandoned towns and silent cities, where the remnants of the British Army enforce a brutal code of silence, Lizzie must navigate a world where noise is death, hostile survivors are as dangerous as the creatures, and the greatest fight isn't for a medal, but for her last good breath.