If the Gods Have Blundered

Candace Jenner's compassion changes everything about the survival of the Grimes and Walsh families, as well as giving her distraught husband a reason to live. Add in one grumpy, antisocial redneck who can't figure out why he's fascinated with a former librarian (although Merle has a few obscenely unhelpful suggestions about that), and survival in the apocalypse is a lot more viable