This improvised family will have to use every ounce of courage they have just to find food, shelter, while fighting off the ‘Changed’ and those desperate to stay alive.Ī tense and involving adventure with shocks and sudden plot twists that will keep teen and adult readers gripped. Alex has terminal brain cancer, and shes had it with doctors and hospitals and waiting around to die, so she cuts school and heads to the wilderness, planning. Desperate to find out what happened and to avoid the zombies that are on the hunt, Alex meets up with Tom – an Army veteran who escaped one war only to find something worse at home – and Ellie, a young girl whose grandfather was killed by the electromagnetic pulse.

While she hikes to scatter her parents ashes, she manages to. Ashes (Ashes Trilogy Series 1) by Ilsa J. For those spared, it’s a question of who can be trusted and who has changed…Įveryone still alive has turned – some for the better (those who acquired a superhuman sense) while others for the worse (those who acquired a taste for human flesh). Alex has never been lucky: first her parents died and then she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. An electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky zapping every electronic device and killing the vast majority of adults. Alex, a seventeen year old traipsing through the wilderness as she ventures to spread her parents remains in Lake.

Can three kids really survive… and who can they trust?Īlex has run away and is hiking through the wilderness with her dead parents’ ashes, about to say goodbye to the life she no longer wants to live.

Ashes by ilsa j bick