It could happen tomorrow . . . An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. Alex hiked into the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised family and the others who are spared, it’s now a question of who can be trusted and who is no longer human. Author Ilsa J. Bick crafts a terrifying and thrilling post-apocalyptic novel about a world that could become ours at any moment, where those left standing must learn what it means not just to survive, but to live amidst the devastation.

The Apocalypse does not end. The Changed will grow in numbers. The Spared may not survive. Even before the EMPs brought down the world, Alex was on the run from the demons of her past and the monster living in her head. After the world was gone, she believed Rule could be a sanctuary for her and those she'd come to love. But she was wrong. Now Alex is in the fight of her life against the adults, who would use her, the survivors, who don't trust her, and the Changed, who would eat her alive. Welcome to Shadows, the second book in the haunting apocalyptic Ashes Trilogy : where no one is safe and humans may be the worst of the monsters.

The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End...is now. When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head. She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death. Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth. The Change isn't over. The Changed are still evolving. And...they've had help. With this final volume of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish, returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is safe and hope is in short supply. A world where, from these ashes, the monsters may rise.

Eine unfassbare Katastrophe hat unsere Welt für immer verändert. Wer dabei nicht dem Tod zum Opfer gefallen ist, kämpft nun Tag für Tag ums Überleben. Die größte Bedrohung geht von den Veränderten aus - jenen gefürchteten Jugendlichen, die sich aus bisher unerfindlichen Gründen seit der Katastrophe in blutrünstige Kannibalen verwandeln. Auch die siebzehnjährige Alex fürchtet diese Bestien und würde keine Sekunde zögern, sie zu töten. Doch als einer dieser Jungen ihr das Leben rettet, nagen Zweifel an ihr. Ist es möglich, dass seine Seele trotz der Verwandlung in ihm weiterlebt? Und dann spürt Alex selbst etwas in sich wachsen: Eine unaufhaltsame Macht scheint von ihr Besitz zu ergreifen…