Hi is the master of sarcasm among friends. So, Tory and her buddies, Hi, Shelton, and Ben, who is two years older than Tory, become an adventurous foursome. Tory and friends are science geeks and their aim is to explore the outer islands where monkeys and other wildlife abound. Unlike most of their classmates they actually like to learn new things. All the three friends of her are boys and the fact makes Kit, her father, thrill over the time. Tory has only three friends in this Island who are adventure seekers like her. Anyway, Tory has always considered herself as unique, no bizarre as her living atmosphere. Tory Brennan certainly inherited her aunt’s need to find the answers when faced with a mystery. Learning about her aunt helps Tory to discover herself and find the answer for why she had rather read about fossilized raptors than go shopping for handbags. And the most attractive part of aunt Tempe’s job for Tory is that he identifies corpses. Here, Tory finds out that renowned scientist and anthropologist Temperance Brennan is her aunt, who becomes an idol for her. Her newly discovered father works in science research for the University of Charleston, which is why she and her friends with similar pedigrees attend the ritzy prep school in town with the local aristocracy. He also knew about the existence of his daughter recently and still is shocked by the fact. Her father’s name is Christopher Howard, whom she calls Kit. She moved here after her mother’s death and get to know her newfound father for the first time. Most maps even don’t acknowledge the existence of Morris Island. Morris is a deserted island with only one connector to modern world: the road. Tory Brennan, the protagonist of Virals, is a girl of 14, who has recently moved to an island offshore South California, called Morris. The plot is structured in a way that holds the readers interests and allows their imagination predominate, as the stories have science fiction and fantasy elements. The novel is build over the adventurous life of Troy Brennan and her three friends, who are curious and science geek teenagers.

Kathy Reichs began the series of Virals in 2010. Virals is a series of novels for both young and adults written by American crime writer and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

Virals by kathy reichs