The Evolution of Glory Loomis

On a Friday afternoon in early spring, Glory Eleanor Loomis, 13, of Sackatucket, Long Island makes a shocking discovery in a second-hand bookstore. Glory is further shaken when the main characters life reads like a horror story version of her own and her mother re-enacts a nerve-wracking scene from the book that Glory has just read.Things take an even weirder and more worrisome turn when shes suddenly beset by a flurry of eerie flu-like symptoms, collapses onto her bedroom floor, and awakens twelve hours later, bewildered and terrified, in a hospital bathroom.Unaware that she is caught in the grip of biological forces that no one sees or understands, she begins to change in secret, subtle and stupefying ways, until her transformation is complete... And her unprecedented journey has begun.Be careful what you wish for, someone once said. But in the end, Glory could not have wished for more. See more