When Beth and Noah's escape from Grady goes awry, no one finds Noah to learn where Beth is. Amanda Shepherd is forced to intervene with the corruption at Grady, but Beth's too damaged to cope with life in the place where she lost so much. Finding Beth's family is a long shot, but Amanda feels like she owes it to her to at least try.
For Rick and Amanda, life was good, as good as it could be in this post-apocalyptic world in which the dead are walking. And it was all too well, but when an unprecedented menace from the north starts to loom over on the horizon with his tranny and simplistic yet cruel worldview, they are going to be tested in a way they have never been before: Surrender or Fight. War or Peace.
Non-ZA AU: After his divorce, Lieutenant Rick Grimes moves to Atlanta when Lori gets a job offer she can't pass up. Newly minted Sergeant Amanda Shepherd takes the plunge into discovering the true extent of corruption in APD. Somewhere along the line, their hopelessly entangled family ties make a relationship both intriguing and completely complicated at the same time.