April 26th begins as a day far from normal for the three Canon brothers and their parents. Joel Canon, the eldest brother and a doctor, encounters a woman who seemingly revives from death into an enraged and cannibalistic state in Indiana. Amos Canon, a homicide detective, investigates a string of murders involving use of a blue poison in New York. Jonah Canon, a National Guardsman, has to return to his base for emergency deployment to Washington. Ezra and Ruth Canon, their parents, rush whatever they can into the impenetrable cellar of their home. Amos, with his partner Samuel, uncovers a...