Emergence

A spin-off from the Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. In the early hours of April 19, 2015, a virus begins sweeping through America's cities, pitting the worst humanity has to offer against its best warriors and scientists in a race against extinction. The virus doesn't just kill; it transforms and creates monsters of men and women. New York firefighter Meg Pratt is among the survivors. Together with her fellow rescue workers and the scattered elements of America's front line military fighters, Meg will have to survive the first day of the Hemorrhage Virus. She hopes to save at least one other soul from the coming apocalypse, but day will turn to night, and the monsters are winning. Across the city, would-be US marine Jed Welch is on his own path to survival, and it is taking him straight to Meg's station. When the world is ending, and monsters are crawling out of every shadow, where do you look for help? If Meg and Jed are lucky, they'll see the help they need emerge from within, just as everything around them is coming to an end.