Book cover for Prey by Sarah Davis
2023 Released
262 Pages
4-6 Hours
Ebook Unavailable
Audiobook Unavailable
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Valkyrie BooksISBN 9798986164496
The fall waterfowl migration has brought something deadly to a small North Dakota town.


Dr. Emily Hayes, a single mom and dedicated veterinarian, finds herself thrust into a nightmare. Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, carried by the fall migratory birds through North Dakota, has mutated. It's become zoonotic, transmissible to people. This insidious disease not only infects birds but also triggers violent aggression in them, posing a graver threat to humanity.


Just as the community teeters on the brink of this Hitchcockian catastrophe, an unexpected figure from Emily's past reemerges: Dr. Jack Connor. With hopes of tracing the origins of the infection, dubbed H5N1 2.0 or Mad Crow, they are thrust into a world where science meets horror.


While the zoonotic infection spirals out of control, Emily and Jack must set aside their differences and confront the long-buried secrets that have kept them apart. Only by doing so can they hope to find a way out of this harrowing biological nightmare.


A murder of crows takes on a sinister new meaning in this disturbingly authentic thriller.


Sarah Davis

Sarah Davis began illustrating picture books in 2008, and is now ruined for any other career. She has an honours degree in literature, and her love of language and narrative underpins her illustration work - as a self-taught artist, she is constantly experimenting with new ways to tell stories visually. She has illustrated more than 30 books with major publishers and been shortlisted for numerous awards in Australia and New Zealand. Her most well-known work includes the Fearless series (written by Colin Thompson), the Marmaduke Duck series (written by Juliette MacIver) and the Violet Mackerel series (written by Anna Branford). Sarah is an ambassador for Room to Read, and the Illustrator Coordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Australia East/NZ). Zeep the Irresistible is the first picture book written and illustrated by Sarah.

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