Released on 9/30/2014 by Scholastic. ISBN: 9780545417815.
Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She follows instructions and relaxes her hair, dates the perfect boyfriend, attends the uber-class day school, and is on track for a perfect Ivy-League future. Yet at a high class party for DC’s elite, a chance meeting with a shadowy Homeland Security agent and a careless word leads to Bird waking up eight days later in the hospital, with fractured memories of the night.
While Bird was out, the world has gone insane: a deadly virus is sweeping the world, forcing quarantines, curfews, martial law. And everyone is certain that Bird knows something- about the virus, about her parents’ scientific work- about something she shouldn’t know. The only one she can trust is Coffee, the school outsider and drug designer who has always been on the edges of Bird’s life. As Bird and Coffee dig deeper into what really happened that night, they find that what Bird knows may be more than either could have guessed- and could bring down more than their shadowy Homeland Security agent.