Flight of the Blackbird

When a sheep herder falls ill in the Baltics, the Blackbird Virus is loosed upon the world, and billions succumb around the globe in a year of panic, hope, and terror. Teens and kids, their bodies spared the worst of the disease, struggle to carry on, while some amongst them weave new webs of power with their own interests in mind. Gangs now run entire cities, and a much more sophisticated group, Shining Path, hides mysteriously in the wings, grabbing at levers needed to control the future of what's left of the entire country. Claire and her brother Rayn set out into this new and dangerous world from their home in Nebraska, intent on following the clues from their father’s university lab and in a stranger’s messages, which find them across the remains of the internet. They are unaware, however, that they are already being watched, unaware of the dangers which will catch up to them, turning their sojourn south into a desperate race for answers, and then for their lives. The importance of the laboratory samples they’ve come to retrieve is greater than they could have imagined, if only they, and those they befriend along the way, survive long enough to make it to the finish line.