Janelle Diller
ASIN: B00S8JWKUS
Publisher: WorldTrek
Pages: 367
2016 Colorado Humanities for the Book Finalist2016 Book Pipeline Competition Semifinalist. "[Ms. Diller created] a taut, well-paced narrative that not only meets the expectations of the genre, but comes across as stylistically sound." 2015 Silver Medal EVVY award for Literary and Contemporary fiction from Colorado Independent Publishers AssociationA smallpox epidemic begins in a whisper with a single death, and then the name of the victim surfaces: Abdulaziz al-Sherhi. In a nation rich in imagination, this name requires none at all. In the weeks that follow, the epidemic fears crescendo into a national roar. People panic about dying from this horrific terrorist incited disease and clamor for a vaccination. The federal government lurches along, hurriedly creating more vaccines to meet the demand.Maggie Rider, a weary road warrior for a high tech company, submits to the shot only to ...