Paul Tremblay is an American horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction writer whose work has won three Bram Stoker Awards, a Locus Award, and a British Fantasy Award. The United States is in the grip of a devastating rabies epidemic. Coyotes, cats, foxes, and small rodents attack residents of small towns and cities; a bite leads to immediate infection, and fever and impaired brain activity develop in a matter of hours. Victims of the “new rabies,” in turn, show aggression and also attack people. Slowness of officials, general panic, traffic congestion, looting... Ramola Sherman, a young pediatrician, went with the flow of her life, without particularly thinking about the future. Lonely, diligent, reliable colleague, gray mouse. But when danger lurks everywhere and the earth burns under her feet, she will inevitably have to become a different person. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT...