The Crimson Strain

Seventeen-year-old Troy Demir keeps his head down—at school, at his after-hours job in the museum, and around the golden-boy bully who makes every day harder. On Halloween night, the people around him begin to change: red eyes, claws, and a hunger that turns the party into a massacre.   A reclusive researcher injects Troy with a mysterious serum and locks him in a cryogenic pod.   When Troy wakes, the world is gone. Magic has replaced technology. Society fears the feral, red-eyed ghouls that still roam the wilds. And when a young ghoul bites him, the serum in Troy’s blood does the impossible—it brings the boy’s mind back.   Now Troy is becoming something the world has no name for. Hunted by a paranoid society, caught between humans and ghouls, and hunted by an ancient threat the ghouls were created to fight, he must decide what he’s willing to become to protect the fragile new life he’s found.   Some strains don’t just infect.   They rewrite everything.