Coby was still just a child the day everything she knew of herself and her world, came to an end and left her abruptly and completely alone. How could such a tragedy happen? How could the fates conspire to leave her to deal with the world's end with no help. "Why me", she would ask over and over.
Yet, though horribly wounded by her paranoid schizophrenic, abusive father who raised her in semi-isolation. Coby is miraculously resilient and is determined to begin a search for answers to her survival, and for meaning buried in the chaos of a world without anyone else to guide her.
As one reads her story they begin care deeply for Coby, her terror, her anger, and her loss as well as for her curiosity about a world she was denied.