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From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling writer of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Package comes a chilling book in regards to a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to lessen civilization to ashes and a strap of improbable heroes who battle to save lots of it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it started or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is growing like wildfire across the country, striking cities one at a time: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it's Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that represents its hosts with beautiful black and gold grades across their bodies - before triggering these to burst into flames. Hundreds of thousands are attacked; blazes erupt just about everywhere. There is no antidote. No-one is safe. Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, cared for hundreds of contaminated patients before her hospital burned to the bottom. Now she's found out the telltale gold-flecked grades on her pores and skin. Once the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, experienced made a pact: They would take matters to their own hands if they became attacked. To Jakob's dismay, Harper desires to live on - at least until the fetus she is carrying involves term. At a healthcare facility, she witnessed attacked mothers give labor and birth to healthy infants and is convinced hers will be fine, too...if she can live long enough to provide the child. Convinced that his do-gooding partner has made him sick and tired, Jakob becomes unhinged and finally abandons her as their placid New Great britain community collapses in terror. The chaos provides rise to ruthless Cremation Squads - armed, self-appointed posses roaming the avenues and woods to exterminate those who they imagine bring the spore. But Harper isn't as only as she concerns: A incomprehensible and persuasive stranger she briefly met at a healthcare facility, a man in a dusty yellow firefighter's coat, carrying a hooked iron club, straddles the abyss between insanity and loss of life. Referred to as the Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the hearth within himself, using it as a shield to safeguard the hunted...so when a weapon to avenge the wronged. In the needy season to come, as the entire world burns uncontrollable, Harper must learn the Fireman's secrets before her life - which of her unborn child - goes up in smoke.