All Chapters of Eclipse of the Dead: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

It was a typical morning when I first noticed the news reports. The kind of day where you have your coffee, sit down at your desk, and brace yourself for a full day of research. Nothing extraordinary. The university was buzzing, my students were chattering in the hallways, and I was buried in my work—like any other day. But when the first report came in about a strange fever spreading across the world, I didn’t think much of it. Viruses emerge all the time, don’t they? The usual panic and precaution followed. Was it something serious? Maybe. But we were all too busy with our own lives to think it was anything world-altering.The virus started in a remote region, a small village somewhere in Southeast Asia. At first, the cases were isolated—doctors reported that patients were experiencing extreme fevers, nausea, headaches, and muscle convulsions. “Probably just another strain of flu,” we all said. I remember the news reports running through my head as I read the medical journals on my

The days began to blur together as the fever continued its rampage across the globe. People I once knew, friends, colleagues, neighbors—none of them were safe. It was a silent and unforgiving plague, claiming life after life, leaving nothing but devastation in its wake. The world I had once known, orderly and predictable, had been reduced to chaos. And yet, here I was, still untouched by the fever, my immunity somehow providing me with the smallest sliver of hope.But as I sat in the sterile, cold lab at the military research facility, I couldn’t help but wonder about the rest of the world, about the people who were fighting back—those who still had a stake in survival. Ethan Cole, the man leading the charge on the front lines, had crossed my mind more than once. I’d heard his name mentioned in countless briefings and reports, his reputation preceding him wherever he went. A rising star in the military, a man of action, someone who could rally the troops and lead them with unshakable