The citizens of San Antonio, Texas, are threatened with slow extermination by a terrifying virus, resulting in the death a soul every hour. Quarantined by the U.S. Military to contain the outbreak, the city dwellers are desperate to survive. Inside the isolated city, Detective Lily Harris is working burial statistics duty at the Scar, San Antonio's mass graveyard, when she finds a young woman hidden amongst the dead, but the deceased didn't succumb from the flu; she was brutally murdered. A Tangled Web. Lily's investigation soon takes an uglier turn as an even deadlier strain of the virus has surfaced, and now she finds herself in the middle of a vicious battle between a corrupt local government, a beleaguered medical institution, and a population threatening to boil over into revolt at the quarantine. No Escape. As the city erupts in violence, Lily is forced to do the unthinkable. With the clock ticking toward destruction. Lily must lead her family through the city streets to escape, and bring truth to the world.