Chase Novak

Brood Chase Novak

Adam and Alice are thirteen, reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral. On the brink of bodily change unlike anything they've ever experienced, they starve themselves in a desperate attempt to stave off puberty. Will they succumb to the same physiological horror that 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. Their aunt, Cynthia, who has always wanted to be a mother, oversees renovations to the Twisden family's Upper East Side residence--torn apart by the children's parents at their most violently savage--and struggles to give her niece and nephew the unconditional love they never had. Meanwhile, in the world outside, the forces of good and evil collide as a troop of feral offspring, growing steadily in number, threatens to invade the calm refuge Cynthia is so determined to construct behind the safety of the Twisdens' walls...