"Gina Henley doesn't keep up with current events. She's too busy partying with her friends and fending off her mother's well-intentioned nagging about finding a man and settling down. When a mysterious illness causes her boss to close the office, Gina must work from home and life as she knows it changes forever. Dr. Eleanor Osborne works at a busy London hospital and knows all too well the virus is causing panic. As if that weren't bad enough, it's too unsafe for her elderly neighbor to continue minding Eleanor's daughter, Sophia. She needs a babysitter pronto, but who can she ask to take the risk? Cut off from her social network, Gina finds the silence of her own company suffocating -- who is she when no one is watching? Eleanor is sure she picked the worst time ever to become a single mother -- how can she possibly raise a child in such an unpredictable world? Set against the backdrop of a viral pandemic, Gina and Eleanor are about to discover that loving another person is complicated when you're desperately searching for yourself"--Back cover.