Sarah-Elizabeth Dean started writing at the age of twelve with fanfiction. World Ashen is their first novel. They were raised in a small town in North Georgia and grew up with Cerebral Palsy. When they're not writing, they're doing genealogy and reading books for ideas and inspiration.

Nineteen-year-old Jensen Michaels, Cayler Reynolds, and seventeen-year-old Kenneth Anderson are three friends living in Pompeii, Georgia. Everything changed when the Supervolcano Yellowstone erupted on October 31, 2019. This sends the United States into a void of ash, darkness, cold, and death. No one knew their own friends, family, and neighbors would be in such grave danger.