A small-time criminal. A has-been rock star. A shadowy government
agency. And a severed hand whose dark powers threaten to destroy them
all.
"The unsettling darkness of Joe Hill meets the cryptic mystery of The
X-Files, Fever House is a wild ride through a funhouse apocalypse that
will stick to your mind like clotted blood."--Delilah S. Dawson, New
York Times bestselling author of The Violence
When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in
Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the
last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator.
Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness:
Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for
violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion: Dark-op
government agents who have been desperately hunting for the hand are on
Hutch's tail, more of the city's residents fall under its brutal
influence, and suddenly all of Portland stands at the precipice of
disaster. . . .
But it's all the same for Katherine Moriarty, a singer whose sudden fame
and precipitous downfall were followed by the mysterious death of her
estranged husband--suicide, allegedly. Her trauma has made her
agoraphobic, shackled within the confines of her apartment. Her son,
Nick, has moved home to care for her, quietly making his living working
for Hutch's boss.
When Hutch calls Nick in distress, looking for someone else to take the
hand, Katherine and Nick are plunged into a global struggle that will
decimate the walls of the carefully arranged life they've built. Mother
and son must evade both crazed, bloodthirsty masses and deceitful
government agents while exorcising family secrets that have risen from
the dead--secrets, they soon discover, that might hold the very key to
humanity's survival.
Can you resist the hand? Find an excerpt from the next Fever House
novel at the end of the book.
