FOUR DECADES AFTER TYPHOID MARY WENT TO HER GRAVE, FIVE CURIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO ESCAPE ALIVE FROM THE ABANDONED ISLAND THAT ONCE IMPRISONED HER. CONTAGION DOESNтАЩT DIE. IT JUST WAITS.
In the Hell Gate section of New YorkтАЩs East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane.
Here infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here a desperate ship captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in ManhattanтАЩs most privileged quarters.
GeorgeтАЩs great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother IslandтАФbantering, taking pictures, recalling historyтАФthey are missing something: Hidden evil watches over themтАФand plots against them.
When death visits Hell Gate, it comes to stay.
As darkness falls, the students find themselves maroonedтАФtheir casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyoneтАЩs imagination.
Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.
Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New YorkтАЩs foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister theyтАЩd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.
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