The world ended not with a bang, but with a scream. Almost a year after the outbreak turned cities into graveyards and people into shrieking monsters, survival is a daily negotiation with death. Dylan Pierce doesn't do hope-he does silence, steel, and the next supply run. But when he's saved by a strange woman from the ocean, everything changes. In a world where trust is fragile and time is running out, what's more dangerous: the monsters outside, or the truth within?