Any Sign of Life

“Any Sign of Life is a heartbreaking story filled with courage, friendship, and personality. Paige Miller is the perfect team-up buddy in an apocalypse. I was with her when she lost everything, and stood right next to her when she took it all back.”—Wesley Chu, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of the War Arts Saga

“A timely update to classic postapocalyptic YA.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A smart, suspenseful thriller. Totally un-put-down-able.”—Kirkus Reviews

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.

• Last Girl on Earth: Paige Miller wakes from a week-long coma to find everyone she loves gone and the world silent. But she is a fighter, and she refuses to give up.
• Found Family: She is not alone for long. With a loyal dog and a handful of other teen survivors—including a brilliant quarterback and a rebellious street artist—a new team must form to face the impossible.
• YA Post-Apocalyptic Thriller: Scavenging for supplies is dangerous enough, but Paige and her new friends soon realize they are being hunted. They must learn to fight back against the extraterrestrial threat that destroyed their world.
• Action and Adventure: From the empty streets of Columbus to the shores of Lake Erie, this fast-paced sci-fi adventure is a desperate road trip for survival against overwhelming odds.