Endemic

She was a nail. She will become a hammer. Ovid Fairweather was an introverted book editor in New York when a deadly plague swept the United States. Bullied by her father, haunted by her dead therapist, and hunted by marauders, Ovid must find courage amid the chaos to become the person she was meant to be.Amid a civil war in the wake of a deadly virus, this is a novel about how real people change and how they don't. Endemic has won the prestigious North Street Book Prize in genre fiction, the Literary Titan Award, and first place in science fiction at both the New York Book Festival and the Hollywood Book Festival.