Title from playaway label

Release date supplied by publisher.

Issued on Playaway or GoReader, dedicated audio media players.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Originally release by ℗ 2020

Read by Erin Bennett.

"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious virus that is spread by saliva. Like rabies, the infection causes confusion, loss of inhibition, terrible hallucinations, and gives rise to hydrophobia -- an aversion to water. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected -- both animals and humans -- quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they die . . . or are killed. As emergency protocols are faltering, rations are being distributed, and the commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew to try to limit the spread of the new virus. Hospitals are inundated with the sick, and hysteria has taken hold. Dr. Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, her best friend from college who is due to give birth in a matter of days. Natalie's husband has been killed -- viciously attacked by an infected neighbor -- and in a failed attempt to save him, Nats, too, was bitten. Her only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as possible to receive a rabies vaccine -- and to deliver her child. No one knows better than Rams that the clock is ticking for Nats and the baby. The fight to save their lives becomes a desperate odyssey as these friends make their way through a hostile landscape filled with unexpected dangers beyond their worst nightmares -- terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them to the brink. But even if Nats gets the vaccine, will it be too late?"--,Provided by publisher.