SILENCE IS SURVIVAL. ONE SCREAM EQUALS DEATH.In a world gone quiet, the loudest thing left is the beating of your own heart.Maya, a 24-year-old medical intern in Seattle, thought her biggest problem was surviving a 36-hour shift. She was wrong. When a mysterious pathogen tears through the city, turning the population into blind, sound-sensitive killing machines known as "Shriekers," civilization collapses in hours.There are no armies coming. There is no cure.Armed with nothing but her medical wits and a desperate will to live, Maya must smuggle her younger brother out of the burning city. Their destination: a rumored military bunker deep in the Montana wilderness.But the journey across the American wasteland is paved with nightmares. The cold is unforgiving, resources are scarce, and the Shriekers are evolving. Yet, as Maya soon discovers, the dead aren't the only monsters hunting in the dark.In a world without rules, how far will she go to protect the only family she has left?