Cheryl Gensiorek

A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.

Jess, a newly separated mother and nurse, moves into her old family farmhouse with Tyler, her teenage daughter, and Owen, her eight-year-old son. One night, the family dog senses something in the woods and runs off to find it. He returns a couple of days later and attacks Owen, savagely biting him before Jess is able to intervene. Owen is rushed to the hospital. His condition worsens, and no one can figure out why... until Jess discovers a disturbing cure...

When high school senior and math prodigy, Ethan Young is enrolled in public school for the first time, his privileged, upper-class life becomes a secret he must hide if he wants to fit in and successfully lead his new school's underdog economics team to victory. And after being relegated to public school for disobeying his father (Wayne), Ethan is forced to choose between two competing priorities of becoming a successor to his father's business legacy or forging his own path and helping his newfound friends.