{"product_id":"the-first-bite-jason-richard-clark-9798278024194","title":"The First Bite: Book One of the Willow Creek Collapse","description":"You can outrun a monster. You can outsmart a killer.\u003cbr\u003eBut you can't hide from a mosquito. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a routine July night in the small town of Willow Creek ends in a mosquito bite, Olivia Hayes doesn't think twice. She's a nurse, used to bug bites, summer heat, and strange ER visits. But the woman who collapses in her clinic hours later isn't just sick-she's the first domino to fall in a chain reaction that will shatter the town, and possibly the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe symptoms come fast: fevers so high they crack teeth, comas with no cause, and skin so cold it feels refrigerated. The infected don't die...\u003cbr\u003eThey transform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs cocooned bodies pile up in the urgent care, and hybrids-something between human and insect-begin to emerge, Olivia realizes she's no longer treating patients.\u003cbr\u003eShe's witnessing the collapse of her town. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd maybe the beginning of something far worse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn alien invasion has begun-one so subtle, so patient, no one saw it coming.\u003cbr\u003eThey didn't arrive in ships at first.\u003cbr\u003eThey came on wings.\u003cbr\u003eThey came through blood.\u003cbr\u003eThey came one bite at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, with communication down, the town sealed off, and swarms spiraling through the skies like storms made of wings, Olivia must fight to survive-and protect a young girl whose infection might hold the key to saving them all... or ending everything. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut something else is watching.\u003cbr\u003eFrom deep in the woods.\u003cbr\u003eFrom the sky.\u003cbr\u003eFrom within. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd the hive is growing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jason Richard Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798278024194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.21d","brand":"Jason Richard Clark","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171379552511,"sku":"9798278024194","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-first-bite-jason-richard-clark-9798278024194","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}