When the world ends, the last thing you would expect is for the monsters to look exactly like the people you love.

My name is Ava, or at least It was, and I was barely fifteen when the infection reached the City of Bastion. When my parents dropped me off at the edge of the city for what was supposed to be a boring spring break with my aunt, uncle, and their sticky-fingered three-year-old son, it was just the start of the last normal week of my life.

They promised they'd be back before I knew it. They never came back. As Bastion descended into chaos, the infected multiplied by the day, and one by one, the people I cared about disappeared. The city that once promised safety became a graveyard of empty streets, boarded windows, and unanswered questions. Before the outbreak, I had everything. Wealth. Security. A future planned out long before I was old enough to decide it for myself. I spent years believing Bastion's walls could keep the horrors of the real world outside.

I was wrong.

Survival began to feel worse than dying, and the infection wasn't the only thing destroying Bastion. Before long, I came to realize the world's greatest monsters didn't always have red eyes. Somewhere within the chaos, Jay and Jamie, a pair of twin brothers, came crashing into my falling world like a storm. Reckless, stubborn, yet impossibly different from each other, they were exactly the kind of people I didn't need by my side. Despite my best efforts, the horrors of Bastion seemed to lead us directly towards each other, and soon enough, we uncovered secrets even the end of the world couldn't hide. While others focused on survival, I was chasing ghosts. Forcing myself to leave behind the life I once had, when Jay, Jamie, and I found evidence of my parents' whereabouts in the city. Finding them became my new obsession. With infected swarming every inch of the city and a monster close on our heels, the journey through Bastion was laced with blood and heartache.

I would find the answer to my parents' disappearance, even if it meant killing every monster within these city walls.