Engulfed

By Sarah Llewellyn

My story isn’t the beginning or the middle. It is the end of the end. It was over before it could ever really begin. A tale of nothing and everything. The world stopped in a heartbeat. We were given a mere forty-eight hours. If that. It seemed cruel. Suddenly next-day delivery meant nothing, but getting ourselves to our family the next day meant everything. Those who weren’t within driving distance of their family didn’t have a hope in hell of returning to them to be with them. Those who did manage to get to them would feel as though the time spent with them just wasn’t long enough. Nothing was enough now.
A personal and intimate account of a young couple facing an almighty tragedy. Luke and Maya are still in the honeymoon period of their life, renting a small apartment, with their little dog Cassie; they are working tirelessly to save every penny they have to one day move into their own beautiful home and start a family. They didn’t see this coming. No one did. When the announcement for the end of the world comes, it is hard to believe, but with the world slowly grinding to a halt, Luke and Maya know that they have some hard decisions to make and time is running out. With less than forty-eight hours till the solar flare engulfs the earth, they are faced with impossible questions to answer.
What would you do?
Where would you go?
What matters most?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Jun 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781398459632

Sarah Llewellyn

Sarah is and always has been an avid reader, with the imagination to go with it. Each story she pored over inspired her to one day achieve that quiet but constant dream within her: to see her name written at the bottom of a book. Living a simple life with a big dream, Sarah used the 2020/21 lockdown to pursue this, and so this is her debut to the world.

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About the Author

Sarah is and always has been an avid reader, with the imagination to go with it. Each story she pored over inspired her to one day achieve that quiet but constant dream within her: to see her name written at the bottom of a book. Living a simple life with a big dream, Sarah used the 2020/21 lockdown to pursue this, and so this is her debut to the world.

Sarah Llewellyn

Engulfed

Copyright © Sarah Llewellyn 2022

The right of Sarah Llewellyn to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.

ISBN

9781398459625 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781398459632 (ePub e-book)

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First Published 2022

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Dedication

To my Mum and Dad, for never letting me go a day without letting me know how much you love me.

To my Alex, for giving me your love and support with no shadow of a doubt. There are no chapters, so no excuses.

Acknowledgements

Firstly, I would like to thank my parents. They encouraged my love of reading from the earliest age; my fondest memories of Christmas would be organising the piles of books that they had bought me. They have supported me every day in order to make my world a happier place, and through everything, they are my best friends.

A world of gratitude needs to go to my Alex who has listened to my every worry and tried to solve every problem for me just to bring the smile to my face once more.

Thank you to my family, who were so excited by this that they wanted to be the ones to play the characters in a movie one day.

Lastly, thank you to Austin Macauley, for taking a leap of faith with me: you have made my dream come true and for that, I am eternally grateful.

It came suddenly. Not slow and drawn out like we had thought. Abruptly. Life as we knew would never be the same again. Life as we knew, just wouldn’t be. There was no fighting it. No beating it. There were no superheroes coming to save the day. When you watch a film, this is the moment where it seems like all is lost, all is over and the bad has won and the good is dying out. In the