The Blight

THE BLIGHT They didn't come back dead. They came back... growing. In the rain-soaked hills of western Ireland, the quiet village of Boghennis receives an unexpected delivery. Forty sacks of seed potatoes - dropped by an unmarked lorry in the dead of night, with no note, no invoice, and no explanation. They look like a blessing. They are a curse. The potatoes are wrong - mottled purple, unnaturally warm, oozing amber sap that smells of rot and something alive. When the villagers eat them, the sickness begins slowly: fever, burning skin, veins blackening into root-like patterns beneath the surface. Then the fever turns to rage. And then - the dead do not stay dead. > Shooting them doesn't work. Cutting them only makes them grow back. Jason Kennedy - an ex-firefighter returned home to heal - and Martin Morton, the village mechanic, stand between the infected and the outside world. They learn the impossible truth: this was no accident. Boghennis was a test. The blight is a weapon - engineered in a secret facility disguised as a farm, designed to rewrite all life into something else entirely. > And the harvest has only just begun.