Day of Now

Siblings Dayna and Pax live in a post-apocalyptic world in which many of the things we take for granted, schools, cars, hospitals, regular food supplies and even energy and water, are in short supply. Most of the population has died due to a lack of immunity to a fungal pandemic known as the Pink Mist or pink rabies.

If infected, a person can become like a crazed zombie and murder anyone or anything in their vicinity or, in rare cases, they can shake off the illness and return to normal. Unfortunately, nobody knows which of these two will happen.

Dayna and Pax’s father with whom they live, their mother has apparently died, becomes infected and is then taken by scientists to the mysterious station where they are working on a vaccine or possibly are conducting human experiments. Dayna and Pax determine to undertake a perilous mission to rescue him.

Will they do it and what hazards will they run into along the way? More importantly, whom can they trust?

This is a novel which poses some fundamental questions about human values and what makes one life more valuable than another. There is a lot of violence and repeated references to sexual assault and the negative side of living in a cult.

Dayna and Pax are strong characters and the reader will be rooting for them throughout, particularly Pax who, refreshingly, has retained some of his childhood innocence. There is also a well rounded and believable disabled character, Jean, who is a user of a prosthetic leg. Jean gets to play a strong, active role in the narrative.