THE 7 DAYS

"It's not wrong to be scared of the dark," Scoutfield told me. His lips quirked into a smirk, and then his face turned darkly serious. "As long as when the lights come on, you're not frozen." Fourteen-year-old Nova Quinn is the underestimated, overlooked middle child in her family. Stuck between her glamourous older sister and her sweet baby brother, Nova takes advantage of the lack of attention to raise herself, teaching herself her own morals and skills. But when the evil Senate accidentally releases a terrible engineered virus, Taipei Mortem, into the world, Nova watches as her family is destroyed and friends die within minutes of contracting the sickness. Taking her best friend, Echo, and her baby brother, she flees into the wild, uncharted territory that hasn’t been inhabited since the world's extended technology first destroyed it several decades before. But when Echo’s surrogate mother, Madeline, joins their group, it becomes clear they are hiding many things from her. As the world falls apart over the course of a week, Nova must survive on her instincts alone, protecting her brother no matter the cost. But when she finds herself completely shattered by her circumstances, she realizes that all truths have to be faced at some point. The first book of the UNSEEN Trilogy begins the long and perilous journey of Nova as she learns that not everything is as it appears, and sometimes, we must look deeper to find the real enemy.