Safety is an illusion when every man lives for himself.ĭespite it all, Liv still has hope.
Shelter can’t offer protection when the enemy is already inside. Desperation makes people dangerous, though, and nothing in Rockham Falls is as safe as it seems. Desperate people cling to survival in Rockham Falls, a stronghold protecting them from humanity’s worst. On the outskirts of a town, Liv and Joshua are never truly alone. He introduces her to the world from his eyes, a place that hasn’t crumbled so much as changed, reshaped to fit back into the intricate cycle nature intended. The answer to that question comes in the form of a burly, bearded, brutish man that Liv is half sure is an axe murderer. Were you making it if you were alone, starved and barely sure of which direction you were going? Otherwise, she wasn’t entirely sure how she made it as far as she had. Maybe she was just standing in the right place at the right time and all that crumbling stuff missed her. Liv isn’t sure she fits into that category.
When the known world comes crumbling down, only the strongest make it out of the rubble. When Joshua finds a woman running from hell, half-starved and on death’s door, he accepts what he has to do. Even a man who did what it took to stay alive wasn’t exempt from God’s judgement. He was already built that way.Įven a man who was crafted to survive wasn’t prepared for the guilt that came calling in the middle of the night. The blackout changed people, broke them down and remade them into the most base version of themselves. That lesson was the reason he was still alive. It was one of the very first lessons Joshua’s father imparted on him. Nothing makes people more dangerous than desperation. A town clinging to their humanity in a world forever changed darkness. A survivor with nothing left to live for. After all, no one survives the end of the world alone.Ī woman alone in the end of the world.
At a glance he seems to be nothing more than an off-kilter backwoods prepper with a grudge against humanity, but the longer she looks, the more Liv begins to see the man behind the churlish words and unkempt beard.Īs reluctant as he is to keep her, Joshua just might need her. It’s hard to earn his trust and even harder to keep it. With a shack, a farm, and a lifetime of survival skills, Joshua is the perfect companion for the apocalypse. Running for her life, Liv falls at the feet of an unwilling savior. The roads are stalked by stray dogs and stray men, both with growing appetites and frightening intentions. When an unexpected and inexplicable black out thrusts the world into chaos, that’s exactly how she finds herself.Ĭlean water and food vanish as she flees Seattle in pursuit of rumored safety and power further east. There were three things Liv never wanted to be starving, filthy, and alone.
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