June 2024….everything is normal in the world….until it isn’t. Zombies shriek! People turn. An apocalypse breaks out. Thelma Lou is seventeen and from Kentucky, living a normal life. She has high academic dreams in biomedical research. Soon, they won't come true. The world will change and never be the same again. She will never be the same again. Traveling across the country, trying to get to her family, defeating zombies, and researching the deadly W virus are among few of the many heroic things Thelma Lou does. Dreams crushed. Hope lost. Yet she still fights. She fights for another day to survive. Is it enough, though? Will she survive the next ten years? Or be crushed by the burdens ahead of her? Find out for yourself.