The Thirteen Days of Christmas

Christmas is thirteen days away.

In the New River Valley of Virginia, life is moving toward the holidays. Students are heading home for winter break. Families are decorating trees. Churches are preparing Christmas programs. For paramedic Noah Bishop, it should be just another busy December.

Then people begin to die.

At first, the reports seem isolated. A strange illness. A handful of unexplained deaths. Nothing that should concern a small Appalachian community. But when the dead begin returnin...