When a catastrophic outbreak transforms a coastal city into something unrecognizable, a team of six contractors is hired by a billionaire to extract one girl - his niece, Evelyn Wren - from St. Brigid's Center, a residential therapeutic facility on a sea-locked island. The job was clean on paper. It stopped being clean the moment the ramp dropped.Evelyn is sixteen, autistic, and sees everything. She is precise where others are panicked, direct where others perform, and she has already done the math the contractors haven't let themselves do yet: there are twelve children at St. Brigid's, and the boat won't be back for six hours.The contract said bring back one girl. The girl has other ideas.Now, a team built for extraction faces a choice no contract covers - and the dead are not the only thing closing in.Six contractors. Twelve autistic children. One island. No margin. Steven Infanti is the author of The Debt of Moytura series, The Blood & Gold Saga - a mythic retelling of the Siegfried legend - Bob the Caretaker, The Regulars, Devils Around the Clock, Shadow of Blood, and What Fear Owes. His work blends history, myth, and emotional precision, returning ancient stories to the weight and complexity they were always meant to carry.A veteran of the U.S. Army, he holds a B.A. in Journalism from Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and two Master of Science degrees from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. He is currently pursuing his doctorate at Franklin University. He lives in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Elizabeth.
