"This is what the plague looks like. It's not illness at first. It's fear. The type of fear that nags at the back of your thoughts, that crawls like a parasite under your skin. Can we get sick from touching other people's clothes? Can we get sick from running our hands over the same door handles? Are we doomed for breathing in the same air? No one can promise us we'll survive. The best we can hope for is to go out fighting"--Publisher's description.