Affliction

"Abrahams tells the story of a mysterious team of researchers, four college friends, an ex-con, a lonely fry cook, a secretive group of prepared civilians as they each battle to survive in southern California after an outbreak of a new, deadly disease with no known cure. Can they find a way to stop it? Can they survive in an afflicted world? Same characters, different alternate catastrophes." ― quoted from this book's trade paperback product page on Amazon.com as of 2018-10-07.