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- Title
- Quarantine
- Author
- Cross, Sable
- Publisher
- Sable Cross
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235468474
She survived the virus. She can't survive him.
A hemorrhagic pathogen tears through Magdalena, New Mexico - population eleven hundred. Within two weeks, forty-seven people are dead. The streets are empty. The clinic is overwhelmed. And Nola Deschamps, the woman who found the first body, breathed the same air, touched the same surfaces, hasn't developed a single symptom.
Dr. Elliot Rowe doesn't believe in luck. A CDC epidemiologist sent from Atlanta, he arrives with a containment protocol and one objective: understand why Patient Twelve is still alive. Her blood holds antibodies his lab has never seen - the potential key to saving everyone the virus hasn't killed yet.
The order is simple. Quarantine her. Monitor her. Draw her blood every morning at six.
The complication is her.
Sealed inside Nola's small adobe house under federal quarantine, Elliot's rigid protocols begin to dissolve against twelve hundred square feet of forced proximity. A towel folded in thirds. Tea left beside a laptop. A fingertip grazing skin during a routine draw. Two people learning each other not by choice but by pressure - discovering that pressure, sustained long enough, becomes its own language.
Outside, Magdalena is dying. The death toll passes a hundred. The town turns on Nola - the woman who lived becomes the one they blame. A chain-link fence goes up around her property. The desert she's known her whole life becomes a compound.
Inside, something grows between them that neither discipline nor distance can contain. He's a man built out of data, haunted by a sister he couldn't save. She's a woman rooted in land, carrying the stubborn biology of a mother who beat cancer against every prediction. He reads the names of the dead each morning. She writes them in her mother's notebook each night.
Then the water samples come back. The pathogen wasn't natural. The contamination was deliberate - a fourteen-billion-dollar mining play engineered to depopulate the land above the richest rare earth deposit in the Southwest.
Now the woman whose blood holds the cure must decide how much of herself she's willing to give - to the town that blamed her, to the science that needs her, and to the man who sealed her inside her own house and became the only person she's ever let past the door.
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