The virus doesn't kill you. The smile does... Forty-eight-year-old recluse Sarah Sampson knows father died in The Vietnam War. But when a TV broadcast turns her world upside down, she has to find out for sure. Can she and her K-9 companions survive the horror of the pandemic long enough to learn the truth? Reporter Erica Goldman knows the 'old boy network' at the newspaper will never give her a chance… Will she discover the apocalyptic secret behind the smiling flu, avert Armageddon, and save her career? Young Dr. Carl Parks knows his patient is a kindly old man…Until that patient reveals a doomsday secret… But will anyone listen? You'll love experiencing this genre-busting apocalypse thriller through the eyes of its complex, characters.