Literature

Chemical Exposure is a disturbing thriller surrounding an emotionally troubled 18-year-old teen by the name of Daniel Davenport. The journey through his disturbed mind starts a week before his high school graduation, when a chain of unexplained events, including an unsolved murder, takes place in his hometown of Morrisville, a small, remote village within a circular valley in Southern Illinois (Based on a real location). Daniel and his best-friend Tallulah, with whom he has a complicated relationship, barely make it out of the town alive. Both of their families, including Daniel’s cherished kid brother, are torn from them cruelly during a bizarre viral outbreak that kills the townspeople within three days and reanimates them into the undead. Daniel and Tallulah soon learn there is more to the mundane Midwestern hamlet than they originally thought. The reader will also get a taste of small-town life in the upper south/Midwest, with farming villages, abandoned coal mines, and a dilapidated economy that has left the families there struggling well before the virus outbreak happens. Chemical Exposure touches on complicated topics such as race, sexual assault, and poverty. This is the beginning of a three-part series.