The world ends in screams, sirens, and a broken promise.
Seventeen-year-old Kyleea loses her mother during the chaos of a zombie outbreak. Clinging to the final instructions she was given, she seeks shelter in Blackwood Amusement Park-a place once filled with laughter, now stalked by the infected.
Beneath haunted-house corridors and rusting rides, Kyleea discovers she is not alone. Emma, a cautious mapmaker; Noah, a quick-witted mechanic; and Lily, a little girl determined to believe in brave horses and tomorrow, are also fighting to survive.
Together, they transform the park's maintenance tunnels into a hidden home, create rules to keep one another alive, and become the family none of them expected to need.
But safety is temporary.
Food is disappearing. Winter is closing in. The infected are learning the park's pathways, and a growing horde threatens to destroy everything the survivors have built. When trust becomes dangerous and their defenses begin to fail, Kyleea must decide what to save, what to sacrifice, and how far she will go to protect the people who now depend on her.
In a world where noise can mean death and every ride holds a memory, survival will require more than courage. It will require ingenuity, mercy, and the strength to keep hope alive after everything familiar is gone.
The Last Rides is a gripping and emotional post-apocalyptic survival novel about grief, resilience, found family, and four young survivors who refuse to let the end of the world be the end of who they become.
