Edgar Prize Nominee for Ideal Young Adult Secret

Perfect for supporters of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror movies like 28 Days Later and Citizen Bad, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying book is the initial within a duology in the critically acclaimed writer of the Taken trilogy.

After finding a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is delivered into deep space to execute a standard search-and-rescue mission.

If they arrive, they find the about Contagion planet full of the remains of the project-including its people’ dead physiques. Because they try to patch together what could possess possibly decimated an entire project, they find that some factors are best left buried-and some monsters are just too prepared to awaken.

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CONTAGION:

“Gripping, thrilling and terrifying in identical measures, Contagion is the perfect intersection of science fiction and horror-I couldn’t look aside.”-Amie Kaufman, NY Times bestselling writer of Illuminae and Unearthed

“Few understand the true horror that is based on the empty unidentified of space, but Erin Bowman fingernails it in Contagion. Browse this one with the lights on!”-Beth Revis, NY Times bestselling author of the Across the World series and Celebrity Wars: Rebel Rising

“Erin Bowman’s Contagion is everything I’d like in my science fiction: a ensemble of smart people on the desperate recovery mission forced to confront an elusive and unstoppable enemy. I absolutely enjoyed this layered and thrilling experience and can’t wait around to dive back to this world again.”-Veronica Rossi, New York Times bestselling writer of the Beneath the Never Sky series