Unable to tolerate Rick's unraveling sanity during the cold winter spent wandering, Carol sets out to redirect his attention to a different way of coping. Unfortunately, happiness is fleeting in the apocalypse.

AU: Fatherhood is complex enough without adoption and years of missing childhoods. Merle Dixon never expected to see his daughter again, but when she plucks him off an Atlanta roof, his life changes for the better despite the apocalypse. Trust a Dixon to have become a master thief no matter who raised them.

Just when Buck is considering leaving Los Angeles after the confrontation with Eddie at the grocery store, a knock at his door brings a surprise he never expected, but that he wouldn't trade for anything in the world. As family secrets unravel around Buck, he's going to need his best friend more than ever, but he's got to figure out why Eddie's holding a grudge, first.

Merle Dixon's life in the apocalypse is one he intends to center on staying sober and making up for the kind of life he lived before. He has his brother's family and an adopted daughter and grandson to look after. Facing a determined, meddling batch of ladies might be more intimidating than staying sober in the apocalypse. Part 3 of the Hell series.

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.

The second time Molly and Arthur's home is empty of children, they find other ways to spend their time. One-shot.

A nightly cooking ritutal leads to Rowena's place among the Winchester family being confirmed. One-shot.

Georgia weather turns a supply run into a run for shelter from a thunderstorm for Daryl and Michonne, along with sharing some of Daryl's carefully held secrets. One-shot.

AU: The Allied Communities are stable, with years of peace and growth behind them as refugees begin appearing in Virginia, fleeing Saviors led by a man called Negan. Taking on a madman isn't a tale about war or strength, but instead one of just how far a person will go to protect others, even at the cost of their own soul. Part Two of the Homestead, Georgia series.

AU: Tragedy, fire, and horrific luck separate Lori and the children from the others after the Greene farm falls. After years spent pretending to be the perfect housewife and PTA mom, Lori must reach into her past for the skills to keep the kids alive.

At the CDC, Carol returns to the rec room to retrieve a book and interrupts Shane's pleading with Lori before things go too far. Thinking over what she overheard, Carol decides that if Lori's foolish enough to discard the man who kept them all alive for a man barely aware of their new world, she's happy to pick up the pieces.

Shane leaves the farm on his own after Rick's ultimatum that he give up rights to the baby in order to stay. Instead of giving into the growing impulse to harm his best friend, he heads north to lose himself hiking the Appalachian Trail. Part of the Lost Deputy story collection.

Arriving on the Greene farm upends everything Daryl ever thought he knew about his place in the world. Coming to terms with Merle's greatest secret may take more courage than Daryl possesses, but he's never been one to give up, especially on family.

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

Beth escapes her Grady kidnappers before they reach the hospital, only to cross paths with a man she hasn't seen since before the farm fell. Life on a sailboat seems safer than on land, and it leads her and Shane to an adventure neither of them expected to find in the apocalypse before they're finally reunited with their families. Part of the Lost Deputy Collection.

Beth Greene has a very big secret, even bigger than the fact that her father is keeping walkers in the old barn. When a hunting accident brings a wounded former deputy to the family farm, she thinks for the first time, she might have an ally in figuring a way out of the mess her family has gotten themselves into. Part of the Greene Farm AU Collection.

AU: In a world that seems crafted for men even more than the old one was, finding out who you as a woman are isn't easy. Carol escapes her abuser and steps into leadership rather than risk another man controlling her life, Lori sheds the self-imposed restraints that nearly suffocated her, and Beth rises beyond her past to learn that not all good people break in the end.

Teenage Beth Greene's psychic gift seems more of a curse when she witnesses her mother's impending death, and Annette and Shawn's deaths send the whole family into a tailspin. Meanwhile, the sole survivor of the Wizarding World relies on her own damaged gift to try to puzzle out why she's lost in the American South.

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.

Glenn falling to a madman on Christmas Day cemented Daryl's hatred of the holiday, but a year later, he finds three reasons it might not be so bad after all. One-shot, canon through the end of Season 8.