A deeply troubling sequence of events is unfolding at the Beach City Medical Center, where patients are growing unaccountably, deathly, grotesquely ill and eventually dying, and doctors are baffled as to the cause, diagnosis, or treatment. First one. Then two. Then a handful.

Hospital CEO George Campbell believes someone is purposely infecting patients with the most deadly diseases in human history and hires nascent investigator Dora Ellison and her sidekick and love interest, the librarian Missy Winters, to investigate.

Will Dora and Missy solve this bewildering mystery before being infected themselves?

Dora Ellison is a tough woman who solves mysteries, finds love and doles out justice.