1918. In the dying days of World War I, the Spanish Flu devastates the small town of Incarnation, Texas. The sheriff closes the church and quarantines the dying in the schoolhouse. The townsfolk huddle alone in their houses to avoid infection. Each new day brings fresh corpses. But something worse than the flu is coming.Verge Str mberg, son of the domineering town pastor, is a sickly boy who lives in a world of books. His mother disappeared when he...