Starting over at a new school in a new town is HARD. You have to learn the layout, make friends, avoid making enemies, and do your homework, too.
It's hard, but it's even harder when you're going to the Yersinia Medical Academy to be a Plague Doctor, your new roomie's weird, you're now an orphan, homework can involve corpses, you need to solve a mass murder, and you're only here because you're now the Carrier of a plague, like everyone else in Yersinia.
How will 15-year-old Callum Martinez cope? And can his new friends help him find who was behind the destruction of his former home?
Starting over at a new school in a new town is HARD. You have to learn the layout, make friends, avoid making enemies, and do your homework, too.
It's hard, but it's even harder when you're going to the Yersinia Medical Academy to be a Plague Doctor, your new roomie's weird, you're now an orphan, homework can involve corpses, you need to solve a mass murder, and you're only here because you're now the Carrier of a plague, like everyone else in Yersinia.
How will 15-year-old Callum Martinez cope? And can his new friends help him find who was behind the destruction of his former home?
200 years in the future, plagues are a fact of life. Thankfully, there are elite members of society who can help: Teams of Plague Doctors, Nurses, and Scientists roam the countryside, fighting outbreaks of terrible disease. One of these teams discover 14-year-old Callum Martinez, the sole survivor of a vicious epidemic. Join Cal as he begins his journey at the Yersinia Academy, a prestigious boarding school for these plague-fighting field crews.
Cal’s just starting out at the Yersinia Academy, but he’s got a lot to learn aside from what’s in his schoolbooks. His Carrier classmates are loud, outspoken, brutally honest, and have absolutely zero concept of personal space.
In other words, everything that Cal’s not!
It doesn’t help that DJ, Cal’s roommate, isn’t as perfect as everyone says he is. How do you keep secrets in a society where people don’t lie?
Cal's learning more about his new life at the Yersinia Medical Academy, but he still hasn't figured out what the deal is with his roommate, DJ.
The questions keep piling up, and they're starting to get to Cal. Can he keep things together long enough to get some answers?
As Cal spends more time with DJ, he learns that being the school idol comes at a heavy price. How can Cal help him deal with the crushing pressure coming from all sides? And is he even helping DJ, or making it worse?
Cal's starting to settle in to his new life at school when DJ realizes that he's living with a stranger. It seems that for each answer he finds, more questions take their place. Namely, who -is- Callum Martinez, really? And what's an Outsider like him doing at the Yersinia Medical Academy?