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Six years ago, the world ended. The dead rose, civilization collapsed, and the people who survived learned quickly that monsters weren’t always the ones walking. Rick Grimes and Shane Walsh survived it together. Still partners. Still brothers. Still protecting their people with the kind of ruthless loyalty the old world would never have understood. Daryl Dixon became their third, and together they became some of the most dangerous men left alive. But there is one thing none of them know. Someone has been watching. Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lives a community most people believe is nothing more than a rumor. A hidden civilization untouched by the chaos of the outside world, built on generations of survival knowledge and protected by people who know the mountains better than anyone alive. For years, they have remained unseen. Until now. They leave food for starving communities. Medicine for the sick. Fuel when the Saviors take everything. They appear when they are needed and vanish before anyone can find them. Even Negan can’t find them. And behind it all stands their mysterious young leader—a woman whose name has become almost as dangerous as the rumors surrounding her. She is a strategist. A fighter. A protector. A woman willing to become something dark if it means keeping her people alive. But before she was the leader of the mountains, she was simply a girl who lost her family. And she never stopped looking for them. When Ezekiel finally convinces her to meet the communities fighting against Negan, she steps out of the shadows for the first time in six years. She expects strangers. Instead, she finds ghosts from a life she thought was dead. Rick finds the little girl he remembers. Carol finds the daughter she mourned. Daryl finds the partner-in-crime he never knew he needed. And Shane finds a woman who thinks like he does—someone who understands exactly how far a person will go to protect the people they love. In a world where surviva