Joseph Souza-Winner of the 2013 Maine Literary Award for Speculative Fiction Colonel Tag Winters receives a mysterious call while on vacation-a deranged terrorist playing a game of cat-and-mouse has released a novel virus on Cooke's Island, Maine on the busiest day of the summer. Now his family has gone missing and all evidence points to him as the perpetrator of this biological event. Winters soon realizes that he must prevent the unsuspecting population from leaving Cooke's Island or else risk this insidious plague from spreading to the mainland. His fierce will to survive, as well as...

Enter into the life of an ideal family--Auggie is a happy nine-year-old boy whose father, Keith, loves him more than anything. Keith's life seems ideal--until one day Auggie vanishes. A year has passed since Keith's son disappeared, and he's haunted by glimpses of his son appearing in his small Maine town. With the investigation at a dead end and his family paralyzed with grief, Keith worries that he's losing his mind. In a thrilling twist, the case turns in a new direction--a direction that could either heal his family or tear them, and the rest of the town, apart.