Spike

Its place in Virals

Spike is book 9 in the Virals series. It follows Terminal. See the full Virals reading order.

A YA spin-off from Kathy Reichs's adult Temperance Brennan novels, co-written with her son Brendan Reichs, Virals follows Tory Brennan — Tempe's grand-niece — and three friends on Loggerhead Island, South Carolina, where their scientist parents run a research institute. After rescuing a wolf-dog pup infected with an experimental canine parvovirus strain, the four teens are themselves infected, gaining heightened senses, strength and pack-like abilities that flare unpredictably under stress. What starts as a way…