From the Ashes (The Cumberland Crossing #1)

Prologue

I never thought I'd see the day when the sun didn't rise in the morning.

It happened after a long period of global unrest, brought to a climax when the President of the United States made the decision to stop entering into agreements with other countries and become self-reliant.

Instead of worrying about the people, he cared more about his own interests.

That self-reliance backfired when the Yellowstone Super Volcano erupted. A situation the world called Eruption.

Although I was in Indiana at the time of the eruption, and we were states away from ground zero, we felt the effects horribly.

With no other nation willing to help us and worldwide weather patterns disrupted, we were on our own.

Civil unrest happened quickly, and within weeks, it was every person and nation for themselves. The global impact was severe. That's when the daily earthquakes and weird weather phenomena started. After that, things got even worse.

Luckily for me, I had my parents, a cousin, and my boyfriend.

Today, two years after the eruption happened, I buried the last person who was close to me, and now I'm completely alone at the end of the world.