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A
propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram
Stoker award-winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A
Head Full of Ghosts.

"Absolutely riveting." -- Stephen King
In a
matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like
virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a
terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly
lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can
before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and
dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the
commonwealth is under quarantine and curfew. But society is breaking down and
the government's emergency protocols are faltering.
Dr.
Ramola "Rams" Sherman, a soft-spoken pediatrician in her
mid-thirties, receives a frantic phone call from Natalie, a friend who is eight
months pregnant. Natalie's husband has been killed--viciously attacked by an
infected neighbor--and in a failed attempt to save him, Natalie, too, was
bitten. Natalie's only chance of survival is to get to a hospital as quickly as
possible to receive a rabies vaccine. The clock is ticking for her and for her
unborn child.
Natalie's
fight for life becomes a desperate odyssey as she and Rams make their way
through a hostile and chaotic landscape filled with dangers beyond their worst
nightmares--terrifying, strange, and sometimes deadly challenges that push them
to the brink...