There is a storm heading for the small rural community of Harper’s Glenn. Under quarantine, the people living there are isolated and terrified while a horrible disease ravages their home and armed soldiers roam their streets.
Shelly Christianson’s life is turned upside down when Martin Fallon is brought into the hospital out of a terrible winter storm near the end of her fourteen-hour shift. Pursued by the relentless Colonel Aldridge, Fallon has been cornered in Shelly’s hometown, Harper’s Glen. As more troops arrive and the town is quarantined away from the outside world, Fallon enlists Shelly’s help to escape. After which, Shelly finds herself on the run from the troops occupying the town to capture Fallon and combat the mysterious and deadly disease following him. Meanwhile, her friends and neighbors are falling ill and dying around her and tensions between the soldiers and imprisoned populous sparks violence. Shelly is hiding, in mortal fear of her past. Fallon is on the run, desperate to remain free. Aldridge is in relentless pursuit. Each in turn struggles to endure the disease scything through town, the elements, and the army’s occupation. As Shelly and Fallon attempt to escape the net surrounding them, the military resorts to drastic measures to capture them and contain the deadly outbreak.
In Vector Zero conflicting political agendas, military action and duplicity, set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic, are brought to life in chilling detail.
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