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From awardwinning author Benjamin Percy comes the second novel in his grippingly original scifi series The Comet Cycle in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi spawning a dangerous invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that threatens to control the lives of humans and animals alike
It began with a comet They called it Cain a wandering star that passed by Earth illuminating the night with a swampy green light and twinning the sky by day with two suns A year later Earth spun through the debris field the comet left behind Suddenly hundreds of thousands of meteors plummeted into the atmosphere destroying swaths of electrical grids leaving shores of beaches filled with deceased sea life and setting acres of land ablaze It was then they say that the sky fell It was then that Jack lost Mia
Five years after the disappearance of his daughter Jack has fallen Once an accomplished professor of botany hes now a shell of a man who has all but withdrawn from life Nora his exwife has thrown herself into her investigative work Separately they have each bandaged over the hole Mia left behind
Just as Jack is uncovering a new form of deadly parasitic fungus in his lab Nora is assigned to investigate the cases of ritualistic murders dotting Seattle The rituals consist of etchings crosshatches are carved into bodies and eyes are scooped out of their sockets The attackers appear to be possessed
It only takes a moment for a sickness to infect for a person to be killed for a child to be lost When Nora enlists Jack to identify the cause of this string of vicious deaths Jack is quick to help Together they fight to keep their moments the unexpected laughter the extraordinary discoveries the chance that Mia could come back home but they find that what theyre up against defies all logic and what they have to do to save the world will change every life forever
P 2022 HarperCollins Publishers
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