Pandemic 3.0: The Quarantine of Palatka
By Thomas Miller

In the shadow of a nation still recovering from the ravages of Pandemic 2.0, a new, more insidious threat awakens—this time not with a scream, but with a hiss.

Deep beneath Flagler Hospital in Saint Augustine, Florida, a top-secret lab houses AR-34T—a synthetic virus created for research, never meant to be viable. But when a containment breach sends something ancient and intelligent crawling into the world, the quiet town of Palatka becomes ground zero for a horrifying new outbreak. The infected don't rot. They don't rage. They hum.

As strange behaviors ripple through the community—spiral symbols, eerie synchronicity, and whispered phrases that defy logic—the government descends, sealing the town and cutting it off from the outside world. Cell towers go dark. Food runs out. And those who haven't turned begin to question their own minds.

Cory Banner, a humble grocery clerk turned accidental survivor, and Lena Morales, a nurse haunted by what she's seen, must band together with a ragtag group of strangers to uncover the truth. What they discover beneath the surface of Palatka is more than just a virus—it's a neural weapon designed to rewire humanity through light, sound, and behavior. This isn't just infection. It's programming.

As FEMA locks down the area and shadowy agents known as Division Theta move in, the survivors must descend into the city's decaying underbelly to confront a biological system far beyond their comprehension—one that sings in frequencies, syncs with consciousness, and promises an evolution that no one asked for.

Pandemic 3.0 is a chilling descent into the horrors of behavioral manipulation and hive-mind control, where the scariest part isn't losing your life—it's losing your identity. From the author of The Phantom of Palatka and Glorya Culling Strikes Again, this atmospheric thriller blends psychological terror with speculative science, pulling readers into a spiral of dread that lingers long after the final page.