Blind Lake

Tessa is the daughter of Ray Scutter (got to love the name) and Marguerite, who recently had an unpleasant divorce. Marguerite is a scientist and the head of the group at Blind Lake, a research facility, that is studing a species on another world. Ray is an administrator at the same facility who finds himself in charge when all the senior folks are at a conference and a quarantine is imposed on Blind Lake. Chris is an author/journalist who is at Blind Lake on assignment when the quarantine is imposed. The Subject is the member of the species that Marguerite's group has chosen to follow. The story proceeds on two levels that intertwine at the end.