After a decade of addiction and criminality, Russ Grote is given an opportunity by his jilted ex-wife, Patty, to reconnect with his son, Tyler. On the day before his scheduled reunion, Russ and his coworkers are attacked by a horde of pigs infected with a mysterious virus. Russ soon finds that on this day a reunion is the the last thing on his mind. Drake's fiction is a combination of horror, dark fantasy, and speculative fiction with a heavy psychological bent.