Abbygale Neely lives in Portland, Oregon. You know her or someone like her. She's your friend--the one who never quite lives up to her potential. She's smart and funny but guarded in a way you don't understand and she won't confide. Abbygale is in trouble, but she doesn't know it yet. The terrible virus that has kept her holed up at home under a mountain of fuzzy blankets with quaking chills in the middle of summer is, in fact, not a virus at all...