YOU WON'T BELIEVE ME

A teenage girl in Pensacola, Florida, fights to uncover the mystery of her current reality in a horrifying new world.

When 16-year-old Willow Lafayette wakes up restrained to a bed in a room she doesn’t recognize, she has no memory of how she got there, who brought her there, or how long she’s been imprisoned. Held captive by an older woman calling herself Granny who force-feeds her, Willow recalls her former life: her almost-boyfriend August, her singing channel on YouTube, the bunyavirus pandemic that was quickly spreading throughout the country, and the work her father, an internationally recognized epidemiologist, had done to treat the virus. When Granny dies suddenly in front of her, Willow is planning how to escape when a mysterious boy named Elijah appears and frees her. Elijah tells Willow that the world is ending, an experimental drug has turned people into deadly monsters who are roaming the country—and her father may be at fault. Willow must grapple with these revelations and figure out how to survive and whom to trust. The sheer number of plot twists ultimately ends up teetering on the verge of frustrating rather than surprising. However, this is a timely, chilling story that explores fear and consequences. Main characters are cued White.

An unsettling thriller that will leave readers questioning what’s real.