When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town—maybe in the whole world—she must rely on hope, trust, and her own resilience. A harrowing and pulse-pounding survival story from New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson. Any Sign of Life is a must-have for readers of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman's Dry.

Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future—they’re gone.

But Paige is a warrior. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. And that there are worse things than being alone.

New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Power’s Wilder Girls and Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven.

Paige wakes up from a coma to find that the world has changed. Her family is dead, power is out, no TV, Internet, no people on the streets. She is alone.  When she finally ventures out to the neighbor’s house she finds the neighbor’s dog, Emmaline, alive but no one else. Soon Paige and Emmaline find it necessary to leave her house to find someplace safer and maybe, just maybe other survivors.  Eventually Paige finds Trey and later they find Tanq as they work their way to Sandusky where there seem to be other survivors.

It is hard to say much more about the plot without giving away crucial surprises. I am a fan of apocalyptic fiction and this is one of the best I have read. I read this in one sitting, unable to put it down. Highly recommended. ~~ Stephanie L Bannon