Do things with lots of legs creep you out? This may not be the book for you…

Matt Malloy, infectious diseases expert, for the DOH vector-borne disease division knew there was something wrong with the Buffalo Head infection cluster as soon as it hit his desk.

But knowing it instinctively and proving it were two completely different things, especially when his boss and coworkers already thought that, battling sleep deprivation, he’d already gone around the bend.

Matt knew that solving the mysteries of the Buffalo Head cluster was a matter of life and death.

He just didn’t know that it could be a matter of his life and death.

It could happen to you. Maybe it already has.

Feast on this new mystery today.

A nail-biting, creepy-crawly, medical-thriller that fans of Robin Cook will devour.

Read it today.

“I thoroughly enjoyed this page turner and look forward to more.”

“I thought to myself, ‘This place is probably crawling with ticks.’ I may be marked for life.”

“After I was done walking in the woods… it felt like something was crawling on me still. I love [P.D. Workman’s] work and [she does] an amazing job.”

Author notes may contain spoilers!

Almost thirty years ago, I was sick. I was in pain and throwing up several days in a row every couple of weeks. I was missing a lot of work. It took me a while to figure out that this was happening whenever I ate red meat. That was the first step in my journey to veganism.

I didn’t start hearing about mammalian meat allergy being caused by tick bites for another ten years or more. I have never, to my knowledge, been bitten by a tick, much less a Lone Star tick. But scientists suspect it may also be spread by other bites, possibly mosquitoes. I have definitely been bitten by mosquitoes.

There were jokes about alpha-gal syndrome being engineered by vegetarians to force others to become vegetarian. Ideas began to simmer in my writing brain about possible plotlines…

• Disease & Disorder Awareness Pinterest Board
• Bullying Pinterest Board
• Understanding the Tick Life Cycle
• Tick-borne diseases
• State Investigates New Cases Of Localized Tick-Borne Disease
• Is Lyme Disease Contagious? Clues Hint That It May Be A Sexually Transmitted Disease
• Man’s death leads to discovery of new virus in Kansas, CDC reports
• Alpha-gal syndrome

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“Once again P.D.Workman has created an intense psychological mystery that impacts a wallop of thought induction. The writing is so well developed and draws you into the characters story.”