Ashes by Ilsa J. Bick

Post date: Mar 31, 2016 2:54:54 PM

Alex is 17 years old and has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. She has been given a new experimental chemotherapy drug, but it does not seem to be working. The time has come for Alex to come to terms with what is going to happen to her and bring closure to the loss of her parents years earlier. She decides to drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and hike the nature trails. While hiking Alex meets a grandfather and his crabby eight year old granddaughter. After she meets them electrical magnetic pulses are detonated in the Earth's atmosphere and wipe out every electronic and computerized system, and kill billions. Animals go mad and die. Young children are spared, many elderly drop dead instantaneously, teenagers and young adults are irrevocably changed, few for the better, and most for the worse. This is the story of Alex's survival and who she meets along the way. Many of them have ulterior motives. This is the first book in the Ashes Trilogy.