When the world falls into chaos, Ciara only had two keep her daughters alive and outrun the monsters that used to be human. But survival is more than hiding from the dead. Other survivors want what she has. Food, shelter, safety. And they will kill to take it. In the ruins of Australia, can Ciara trust the strangers who promise protection? Or will letting them in cost her everything? When the Silence Came is the gripping first book in the Wild Remnants Series, a post0apocalyptic tale of family, loyalty and survival against all the odds.