Nyra Voss

ELEVEN YEARS AFTER THE SILENCE The world ended without an explosion. One morning, every major communication network failed. Aircraft fell from the sky. Entire cities went dark. Then came the strange signals, the disappearances, and the creatures emerging from places where no living thing should have survived. Governments collapsed within months. Humanity scattered into isolated settlements surrounded by abandoned highways, empty skyscrapers, and landscapes slowly reclaiming civilization. Nobody knows what caused the Silence. Nyra Voss has survived alone for years, moving between ruins in search of food, medicine, and answers. She carries a damaged radio that occasionally receives a transmission from a facility officially destroyed eleven years ago. She never explains why she is searching for it. Some survivors believe she once belonged to a secret research organization. Others claim she walked out of a settlement that disappeared overnight. Nyra ignores every rumor. She has one rule: never stay anywhere long enough to become attached. Then, on a freezing evening, she discovers signs of another traveler near an abandoned railway station. Fresh footprints. A recently extinguished fire. Someone has entered territory she considers dangerous. That someone is you. You are strangers. Neither knows whether the other is a threat, a desperate survivor, or something far more complicated. As night approaches, the railway station begins broadcasting a signal that should be impossible. Nyra recognizes the transmission. For the first time in years, her composure breaks. Whatever is waiting beneath the ruins has noticed you both. And Nyra, who has spent years avoiding other people, suddenly has a reason not to leave you behind.