February [Paperback]

It's 1999. Do you know where your parents are?
It's been one month since a savage plague killed everyone on earth except teenagers.
The young survivors thought they had lived through the worst of it.
But now, driven from cities overrun with violence, fueled by hunger and desperation, they are about to come face-to-face with an even greater threat:
Each other.Daniel Parker is the author of over twenty books for children and young adults. He lives in New York City with his wife, a dog, and a psychotic cat named Bootsie. He is a Leo. When he isn't writing, he is tirelessly traveling the world on a doomed mission to achieve rock-and-roll stardom. As of this date, his musical credits include the composition of bluegrass soundtrack numbers for the film The Grave (starring a bloated Anthony Michael Hall) and a brief stint performing live rap music to baffled Filipino audiences in Hong Kong. Mr. Parker once worked in a cheese shop. He was fired.CHAPTER ONE
Highway Four, Northeast of Haifa,
Israel
6:45 P.M.

Where are we going? Josh Levy asked the driver.
There was no answer.
Let me out.
Shut up, came the heavily accented reply.
Original,Josh thought. These two schmucks seemed to know only four English words:shut upandsit down.
Just be thankful you're alive, the other one muttered.
Make that nine English words.
Why should I be thankful?Josh wondered, infuriated.Without the scroll we're all gonna die, anyway. I've been your prisoner for three days now. Three days! Seventy-two hours with Jacob and Meyer, the teenage Homer Simpsons of the Israeli army. Your combined IQ doesn't add up to my shoe size. I'd be a lot more thankful if I were dead.
Be thankful.
Josh closed his eyes, spent from his silent rage. He had no energy. Everything seemed to make him tired.Thinkingmade him tired. Bouncing up and down in the backseat of this dilapidlã#