In Autumn 2017, a mysterious virus broke out that annihilated most of the world's populace and wiped clean the slate of human society. Millions of people desperate to survive cut their own way through hordes of the undead to make it in the new world. One of them was MC Hawthorne, age twenty-five, of Darrell, Iowa, who was simply going through the motions when the chaos began at work one day. This is her story.