Böcker av Bonnie Taylor

An ugly divorce behind her, Kat Anderson moves her two children to her home town in upstate New York. Her new veterinary practice is thriving and all seems well in her new world. Then, the unthinkable; the animals begin acting strangely. The rodents are first: They begin moving about in daylight, losing all fear of human interaction. Later, they become aggressive. The news reports warn that people who are bitten also become violent. When the government takes over, the threat appears to be contained.Kat is thrown headfirst in to the action when Travis, the game warden, brings her an infected coyote and a local hunter makes a frantic call for help with his hunting dogs. It's a brain parasite. It's killing the animals, then reanimating them.It's a zombie outbreak but these aren't your movie zombies. The parasite is cunning, acting on the direction of a hive mind. They can think, learn, and employ very human tactics to infect the living and fulfill their biological imperative. They are the X Collective - subterfuge, camouflage, cunning, coercive, collective....Kat learns that the dead are not the only threat in this new world and must navigate a lawless land while trying to keep her children safe. With a small group of survivors, Kat sets out to find a way to defeat the organism. To not simply survive, but to end the outbreak with both the odds and the numbers against them. How can one woman end a global pandemic? For Kat, the choice is clear. She will do whatever it takes to make the world safe for her family or she will die trying

Fated Mates with a twist Jessie's life will be forever changed when a mysterious boy from the reservation is transferred to her school. When Jessie meets Jimmy, the attraction is both instant and overwhelming. It's something that had never happened before and the once timid girl is driven to connect with him.But Jimmy Blackfeather is not what he seems. Dropped by a lone coyote on the side of the road, the baby's origins were a mystery to the tribe yet they took him in and raised him as one of their own.Intelligent, empathetic and sensitive Jimmy grows in to a stunning young man with gifts that even he can't explain. He wants to be normal, but normal is not written in the stars for him.When another coy stranger appears, death and danger soon follow. It seems that Shiye is toying with Jimmy and using those close to him to flush him out, but to what end?Join Jessie and Jimmy in this magical tale of danger and desire that leads to Jimmy's true identity. Sometimes the truth is more than we can handle. Will the truth destroy them?