SPREAD OF
EXTINCTION
The Extinction Series
Book 4
By
Tara Ellis
Mike Kraus
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Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
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Preface
The Earth’s tectonics continue to shift in ways that allude to an unknown synchronicity between the layers. The resulting fallout is an exponential disaster leading to an extinction level event, unless one of the deadly components put into motion can be stopped.
Australian marine geophysicist Peta Kelly thinks she may have found a way to do just that. But with infrastructures failing, traveling thousands of miles to trace the origins of a novel prion disease is a nearly impossible task. She’ll need help.
Devon, a devoted colleague and friend, has been by her side since escaping the initial eruption of the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (MOHO). As they flee the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) facility where the government’s last best hope fell to the illness, Peta leads them on what is likely a mission doomed to fail.
Tyler believed in the unusual scientist’s ability to pull off the impossible from the moment she helped save him and his father from the island of Madagascar. With both his parents falling victim to both their plight and The Kuru, he’s left on his own as they leave for South America. Tyler still has hope of finding a cure for his dad, and will stop at nothing to get it.
From the first minute of Jason Hunter’s experience with the Earth-changing seismicity, he was mentally thrust into the past. Back to a time where he struggled daily with the guilt of being alive after watching so many others die. If not for his canine companion, Marty, to ground him to the present, he might have already given up.
After emerging from the hospital in Seattle, Washington, as the lone survivor out of hundreds, Jason found a reason to keep fighting. His daughter. Though they’ve never met, he knows where she is and hopes she shares whatever unique genetic quality gives him immunity to The Kuru. With his friend Eddy, who spontaneously recovered from the disease, Jason manages to travel south with a stop at the CDC lab, only to learn they were fighting a lost cause.
Thrown together with Peta, Tyler, and their friends, Jason and Eddy embark on the same quest, but for different reasons. Reasons that could either bring them all together or tear them apart, with dire consequences.
Only twelve days before, fourteen-year-old Jess Davies’ greatest concern was to avoid the scorn of her scientist father. Now, she just wants him back. He lived through the Kra Puru disease except, according to the indigenous Lokono people of the Amazon, the cost of survival was his soul.
Left to fend for herself with the help of a few friends after her dad abandoned her, Jess must define her new reality. While she doesn’t want to believe the old stories of the prion disease are true, it becomes increasingly clear that it’s more than the people who are changed. The jungle is sick, too, and the symptoms have only just started to emerge.
Dr. Madeline Schaeffer was a brilliant scientist who chose to follow the money, instead of the science. Once she understood how her involvement in the chain of events leading up to the collapse of the seafloor that resulted in the MOHO eruption, it was too late.
Too late to stop it, too late for redemption, and too late to rein in the international corporation that started it: International Coalition Of Natural Sciences (ICONS). When Mads discovered that in addition to the tectonic shifting, their quest for a new fuel source had also released a deadly pathogen, she made the noble choice to try and stop it. Except in the end, it got to her first.
As these people from different parts of the world and walks of life come together under a common goal and destination, their paths will cross in ways none of them could have anticipated.
The Earth is angry. The balance has been disrupted. In order to right it, the price will be the complete devastation of the human race.
Either that, or the loss of their souls.
Chapter 1
GERALD
Rocky Mountains, Western Montana
The sound of his heavy footfalls reverberated loudly in the uncanny silence that had settled over the woods of the Rocky Mountains. Gerald concentrated on the noise, timing it with the strident breaths he sucked in against the pain raging in his chest. Low hanging limbs from the Ponderosa Pines slapped at his face and tore at his arms, threatening to topple him and end his plight prematurely.
Gerald was running for his life. There was no mistaking that. Though he couldn’t understand the
