The Quieting

THE WORLD DIDN'T END.
IT SYNCHRONIZED.
When a routine emergency broadcast test sends a mysterious signal across the country, people begin freezing mid-motion—heads turning west as if listening to something no one else can hear.
Minutes later, the biting begins.
Civilization doesn't collapse overnight.
It changes.
Paramedic Jonah Vale should have died the night the outbreak started. Instead, the bite changes him. The infected hesitate around him. They move past him like water around stone.
They don...