BROOD

In this spine chilling sequel to Breed, Adam and Alice Twisden, now teenagers, find themselves on the brink of bodily change unlike anything they've ever experienced.

The question is--as it always has been--will they one day succumb to the same physiological horror that engulfed and destroyed their parents. Every physical change brings on terror--the voice cracking as it changes, the swelling of the breasts, the coarsening of childish down into actual hair...

The uncertainty creates agonizing hope. Not every person who used Dr. Kis was turned into something terrible by the treatment. Not every child born because of the treatment had anything unusual about them. And for those children who were born with certain horrifying animal attributes, not all of them have these attributes to the same degree. We cannot wait to discover to the fate of the Twisden twins.

Chase Novak is the pseudonym for Scott Spencer, who Publishers Weekly has called "the contemporary American master of the love story." Spencer is the author of ten novels, including Endless Love, which has sold over two million copies to date, and the National Book Award finalist A Ship Made of Paper.