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Summer Lane - Day One

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AUTHOR SUMMER LANE OF REEDLEY IS GIVING THE WORD PROLIFIC A RUN FOR ITS MONEY. - Reedley Exponent The apocalypse took everything from Elle: her family, her world and now her friends. After escaping the ravaged streets of Los Angeles, Elle finds herself stranded alone in California when her friends are kidnapped by a new and dangerous enemy. Determined to rescue them from a horrible fate, Elle begins her trek across the unforgiving desert, into the mountains, and into Slaver Territory. All is not what it seems. Death lurks around every corner. Enemies are everywhere. With the help of a new and brave companion, Elle fights against all odds, clinging to hope and life. Day Zero is behind her. Day One is before her. The end of the world is just beginning.

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Summer Lane

DAY ONE

A Short Collapse Series Companion Adventure

For anyone who has survived.

You are a fighter.

Prologue

Elle slipped through the door of the apartment building. It had been raining for hours. Her backpack had rubbed red, raw marks on her shoulders. She could hear the echoes of the Klans cries against the buildings, carrying all the way down Santa Monica Boulevard.

She looked at the gun stuffed into her belt.

She couldnt believe shed found it. Hidden in someones abandoned apartment, in nearly perfect condition. It was a 1911, a Smith and Wesson. Heavy for a girl her size, but better than nothing. It was something Uncle would have liked to shoot. Something classic. Something that packed a punch.

She moved toward the dark staircase in the building. Her backpack clanked. She had filled it with boxes of ammunition. Shed found no food today, but shed found plenty of ammo.

Elle climbed the staircase, feeling her way down the hall. The building was silent. The quiet was terrifying, stifling. Something in the building creaked. She spun around, taking the gun out of her belt. It was so bigso heavy. But it gave her a sense of security to grip it.

The darkness was comforting, too. In the beginning, when the lights went out and the electricity had died, she was afraid of the dark. Now she embraced it. She could hide in the dark. She could get away from people who wanted to hurt her.

I know youre in here.

The voice was raspy, broken. Slurred.

Elle felt for the safety on the gun, made sure it was off. She held it in front of her, taking a few steps backward, further down the hall. The stairs groaned under the footsteps of the man coming up the steps.

Come on, girly. Stop playing games. Lets just get this over with.

Elles gun was loaded. There were five bullets in the magazine. But it was dark, and she could miss five times. That was the worst-case scenario. And the gunshots would bring more of the Klan. She would be surrounded. Dead.

Her hands shook.

Youre close, I can smell it, he said.

Elle stifled a gasp. He couldnt be more than ten feet away.

Ah, he said. There you are.

Boom, boom, boom.

His footsteps were heavy, coming closer. Elle kicked open the apartment door to her right. It swung open, flooding the hallway with gray, rainy light. She saw his face weathered, grizzled and beaten. His eyes were bloodshot, a crazed smile on his face. Elle pulled the trigger. The gunshot was deafening in the silent confines of the apartment building.

The gun kicked back, jerking Elles hands into the air, making her stumble. But the shot was straight and true. The man toppled to the ground, collapsing in a misshapen heap on the ground. He didnt scream, didnt moan. He was just quiet.

Elle lowered the gun, standing near the doorway of the open room, trembling like a leaf. Several minutes passed. She crept closer to the man and tapped his shoulder with her shoe. Nothing. She pushed him on his side. The gunshot had hit him right in the forehead. Hed died with his eyes wide open, glassy and bloody. Shocked.

Elle jumped backward, looking at his dead body.

She let out a strangled sob.

She had killed for the first time, and she knew it wouldnt be the last.

Part One: The Hunt

Chapter One

California Interstate 5 and Highway 99 Merge Tehachapi Mountains

It was cold. Fog hung freezing and heavy in the air, pressing down on Elles chest. She knelt on the ground and traced her finger along the edge of a tire track. It was clearly imprinted in the mud. She looked around.

Walls of fog were on every side, closing in.

Eating her up.

She kept her eyes on the ground, barely able to follow the tracks without losing all sense of direction. It was eerily silent. There was no noise, no thrum of distant traffic or passenger jets flying overhead.

All was silent.

All was dead.

Elles shoes were caked in mud. Her lips were cracked. She was running low on water. For three days she had been following the tracks, hoping that they would end at some point. But no. They had veered off the Interstate 5 highway and into the countryside, zigzagging through country roads and back into the dirt again.

Elle stopped. She put her hands on her knees and coughed, licking her lips. She sat on the ground, hanging her head. Her chest heaved and her eyes closed. She loosened the leather strap across her chest, the one holding the sheath that reached across her back. It kept her katana her sword safe and easily accessible.

She was exhausted.

She popped open the water canteen and swallowed the last bit of liquid.

She tucked the canteen back into her jacket and adjusted the straps on her backpack. She had no idea where she was, no idea what time it was. It could be early morning it could be late afternoon. Halfway delirious, shed lost track of time.

It wasnt like her to lose track.

But starvation did that to you.

She forced herself forward, following the tracks. She stumbled and fell on her palms, drawing blood. She stayed there on all fours, tears in her eyes.

She was tired. So tired.

Tired of fighting, tired of tracking.

Tired of surviving.

She remained staring at the ground. Everything seemed to melt together. She was tired. Did she have to keep going? She could curl up into a ball and sleep forever, shutting her eyes to the hollow mess this world had become.

No, I have to get up. For Jay, and Georgia and Flash.

Familiar names. Friends names.

It was what Elle needed to get up and keep trying.

The United States had changed. Last year, a technological attack destroyed the very fiber of modern society. An EMP, they called it. An electromagnetic pulse. It took out computers, cars, cell phones, everything. In a single instant, the entire country was thrown into the stone age.

And then they came. Omega. A foreign army a shadow invasion force, creeping quickly into the states, enslaving the population, executing whomever they deemed non-contributing members of society. Los Angeles and other heavy population centers were exterminated with chemical weapons, leaving nothing but empty husks of cities, taken over by Omega forces and roving, violent gangs the dregs of civilization.

Elle had been living in Beverly Hills, California, when it all went down. She was a martial arts enthusiast, a gymnast. A freshman at Beverly Hills High School, the daughter of wealthy socialites. That all changed the moment the power went out. Elles mother had sent her to live with her aunt and uncle on a ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains, hoping that this disaster this invasion would blow over quickly. Surely the United States military would step in and stop this madness.

But they hadnt.

Eventually, Elle returned to the city on her own, searching for her family.

What she found was a Los Angeles that had turned into an archaic battleground between Omega and bloodthirsty gangs. She learned the hard way what it meant to survive, and to fight. She became a part of the city, a shadow, hardly seen, never heard.

And then she met the bunker survivors. Jay, Georgia, Pix and Flash, juvenile delinquents who had survived the invasion in a bunker deep under a correctional facility. Elles alliance with the mangy, unorthodox group of kids was a surprise to her. She had never thought she would become attached to anyone again.

Together, they decided to head toward Sacramento, California. It was a rumored safe haven, a United States military stronghold. California militias and the National Guard were protecting it.

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