All post-apocalyptic novelist Bobbie Stevens wants is solitude-one quiet month in her mountain cabin to finish her book and escape the grief and heartbreak she left behind her in the city.But when eerie wails echo through the forest at night and hints of a real apocalypse appear on her doorstep, peace becomes impossible. As society collapses and communication with the outside world vanishes, Bobbie is forced to confront the very monsters she once wrote about as they roam the woods just outside her door. Terrified and unprepared, denial is easier than survival... until she meets another survivor who slowly chips away at her chilled heart.Noah McLean knows how to endure. Hardened by loss and armed with the skills to survive almost anything, he's prepared for violence, isolation, and the brutal realities of a dying world. When Bobbie crashes into his carefully controlled survival plans with a group of other survivors, Noah's instinct to protect is reignited, threatening the emotional walls he constructed to survive the monsters in his past.As the infection spreads and dangerous people begin to emerge from the shadows, Bobbie and Noah must navigate a world where trust can be risky-and isolation is deadly. Facing relentless danger and impossible moral choices, they discover that true survival might depend not only on staying alive, but on finding someone worth staying alive for.
