Plague

A deadly disease is stalking the country.

In Plague, the sequel to author David Mackey's Fires in the Night, a strange, often fatal virus is beginning to creep across the United States and the world. First noticed at the Federal prison at Sheridan, Oregon, within weeks "Fire Fever" had also struck a girls' dorm at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. 

Watching the news media beginning to clamor about where had this virus begun, and using her several years of nursing knowledge, Elsie McMaridisch begins to suspect that she and her husband Mac may have been the originating cases of Fire Fever. But who can they trust with this information, and how can they prove their theory?

Elsie and Mac enlist their personal physician who has taught at Oregon Health Sciences for many years until retiring to become a general practitioner in Newport, Oregon. The team of three take a week-long hike into the Oregon Cascade mountains and find the original source for Fire Fever.