Invasive Species novel

Cover of my upcoming book

The description I'm considering:

Something's wrong with Maggie's swamp. A volatile life form has invaded the ecosystem and compels everything it touches to adopt its bizarre life cycle. The cells of animals, plants, and even people rupture their bonds and unite with other creatures to give birth to conjoined monsters. These newly-made chimeras consume all they catch, but their relentless appetite is only a prelude to the coming horror. The infecting life cycle demands an even greater transformation, and Maggie fights against it. Life as we knows it hangs in the balance.

Invasive Species an electrifying tale of nature's blind and uncaring need to evolve regardless of what any mere human might have to say about it.   

And some excerpts: 

. . . as water trickled around these strange tumors she realized the heads did not belong to separate animals. These heads belonged to the same body. . . .

. . . "When a foreign organism is released into a new environment, strange and unpredictable things can happen." . . .

. . . Oh God, it was happening again. He felt his cells breaking apart and joining with the cells of the beast that was folded around him. There was no resisting it. New memories flooded in. New thoughts. New desires. . . .

. . . "We may be part of its plan," Maggie said, "but only in the sense a sick person might be part of a bacteria's plan."  

. . . The end of the world was nigh, but it wasn't an end prophesied by Revolutions or predicted by anti-nuclear war activists or climate change doomsayers or soft-spoken astronomers searching the heavens for wayward meteors. This end was planned by billions of years of natural selection. Maggie had a plan as well. . . .

INVASIVE SPECIES by MIKE MAYER​

COMING SOON at AMAZON.