Penelope Heath is in her final year of schooling. While on an excursion to Sydney a genetically modified infection is accidentally released. Those who are infected lose their individuality and work only for the good of their new species. The infected aggressively attack the uninfected. Penelope and her best friend Tiffany need to make their way from the infected over-run centre of Sydney to Penelope's family property in Queensland's outback.
This is only 24,300 words. That's about 100 kindle pages. The next episode is due out mid-August, 2020. it will be about the same size.
I don't know why I love the apocalypse genre so much when some of the scenarios are so triggered. Then you get your awesome protagonist who does awesome things and your belief in humanity is awesome once again.
I loved this book. I can’t wait for the next one in the series and what is in store for Pepper and the group. I couldn’t put it down and finished it in one day.