The First Year

It starts with the flu. Within six months, the entire human race is dead. Everyone except thirteen-year-old Hannah Barton. As she watches her family die, Hannah is helpless to do anything except try to wash that final memory away. The last place she was truly happy was on a family vacation in Charleston, South Carolina. Hannah makes the journey from her empty home in Detroit across a dead world to the Atlantic coast. Through the terror and triumph of solitude, Hannah discovers her own strength.

The First Year is an immersive dystopian thrill ride and an intimate, immediate coming-of-age saga. Hannah Barton has no special powers or abilities. She has been thrust into a situation that is out of her control. Faced with challenges both real and imagined, Hannah’s survival of her first year alone depends on her ability to learn, grow and to take care of herself.