Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

Laura Thalassa spent much of her childhood in Fresno, California, with her nose buried in Anne Rice, R.L. Stine, and other authors. Stine and Katie MacAlister, whose writings piqued her interest in writing her own stories. She has worked as a law student, an independent editor, a medical intern, and an archaeologist, among other things. She is the author of The Unearthly, a young adult paranormal series, as well as The Vanishing Girl, a new adult science fiction novel. From her home in Santa Barbara, where she lives with her fiance, author Dan Rix, she is currently writing on the sequel.