The Changing: 1

The world didn't end all at once. For Zamora, it began with planes falling from the sky.After a catastrophic military experiment kills her parents and shatters the life she knew, Zamora is left with only the island she calls home, a makeshift family of survivors, and questions no one seems able to answer.Then the black particles appear.They move like smoke. Devour whatever they touch. And when they reach human skin, they leave behind something terrifying-something hungry.As civilization fractures around them, Zamora and her friends are forced from the safety of their island and into a world where every decision can mean the difference between survival and death. But the farther Zamora travels, the more she begins to suspect that the disaster consuming their world isn't as random as it seems.Her parents knew something.The military is hiding something.And somewhere inside the devastation may be the truth about what started it all.With John beside her and an unlikely family depending on her, Zamora must learn that surviving the end of the world isn't only about staying alive.It's about deciding what-and who-is worth fighting for.A gripping post-apocalyptic survival story of devastating loss, found family, dangerous secrets, first love, and the stubborn hope that survives when everything else is gone.