Afterglow Rising From the Ashes

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They came without warning darkening our skies.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For months we fought to survive as everything we knew and loved was torn away. Then as abruptly as they arrived they vanished.</em></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Though the invaders left the war wasn't over yet. New terrors emerged from the destruction threatening all that remained.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Alina could never have predicted the post-apocalyptic nightmare she woke up to. Foggy memories and the question of what had happened to her in the months she lost paled in comparison to the fear of the unknown surrounding her. But at least she wasn't completely alone.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When she and her companion cross a camp of survivors their world turns upside down in more ways than one.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Carter braved the invasion from the beginning. After tragedy struck he was left questioning his purpose- in life in love in friendship. He fought for his group to survive tirelessly pushing to reclaim what pieces of hope remained. And now he will do anything to keep them safe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a world on the brink alliances will be tested love will be challenged and the line between hope and despair will blur. Will they rise above the ashes and forge a new beginning? Or will they be reclaimed by the flames in the afterglow?</span></p>