In the Blood

The world is thrown into a frenzy when an experimental virus is accidentally released. Highly contagious, its victims suffer a fate worse than death. Bodies ravaged by fever, their numbers increase at a startling rate as they mindlessly roam the streets infecting all with whom they come into contact until their inevitable and swift deaths. Frankie, a businesswoman with a young family, and Henry, a bachelor well on his way to becoming a grumpy old man, find themselves caught in the fallout. Terror the new way of life, each struggle to survive as society crumbles around them. Hundreds of miles away from one another, they find themselves on a journey to Los Alamos, New Mexico with hopes of finding a cure that, unbeknownst to them, resides within their veins.

It's been less than a month since the most catastrophic pandemic in recorded history decimated the world's population. Survivors are beginning to pick up the pieces of their lives while navigating their horrific new world. The infected are still roaming the streets, ripping apart those unlucky enough to cross their paths, but something has changed. They are not dying as quickly as they had when the virus was first released. In an Us versus Them world, survivors swiftly learn that it is not the infected or even the virus they should fear the most, but those most like themselves. Tess and Henry have picked up a passenger with a dangerous secret while, less than a mile away, Bunmi resolves to do all she can to create a vaccine.

A year has passed since an engineered super virus was released, wiping out the majority of the world's population. Those left behind know they are not yet in the clear. The spread of the virus has slowed, but danger still looms around every corner. Survivors have settled into their new lives with the understanding that people are even more deadly than the virus.Henry and Tess find themselves traveling with more family than either has ever had. When several members of their group go missing, they realize that the only way to get them back is to take on the very same society that abducted and tried to kill survivors in New Mexico a year before. It's an impossible mission until an unwelcome blast from the past offers to help.For Prophet, the biggest threat is to her sense of self. The world was only beginning to accept people like her when society collapsed. Now, she and her only friend Justice must find a way to not only stay alive, but maintain Prophet's very identity. If they do not find a solution fast, she might face a fate that, to her, is worse than death itself.