Chapter 1

The apocalypse has started, and Daryl's wife and daughter are gone. They aren't dead; at least, not to his knowledge. He wavers between believing passionately that they're still out there somewhere, surviving the same way he is, and thinking they're dead and rotting somewhere. It's a thin line he's walking between the warmth of hope and the loss of it. They are a household divided, but not crushed, and both sides have to believe they'll reunite one day. For the themselves, and each other.