The latest novel by British Fantasy Award 'Best Newcomer', Joseph
D'Lacey. When a vampiric plague threatens to destroy isolated mountain
community of Hobson's Valley, it falls to reclusive outdoorsman Jimmy
Kerrigan to save his neighbours and prevent the disease from spreading
beyond the remote town's boundaries. Kerrigan is uniquely equipped to
deal with the outbreak: he carries a variant strain of Fugue that
enables him to overcome and heal its victims, but the nature of the
illness ensures neither he nor those he hunts down are aware they're
infected. The illness and its effects have, like tetanus, survived in
the mountains for countless generations. The lineage of Fugue Hunters
has always been able to reverse an outbreak, but not this time; someone
wants the disease to spread and, in combination with a mutation of the
virus, Kerrigan realises he may not be strong enough to contain it.