VIRAL
By Ash Lucas

What if the virus was never meant to kill you-only to control you?

The year is 2025. The world didn't end in fire. It ended in silence.

Cities still stand. Lights still glow. But the people?
They don't scream. They don't run.
They obey.

Diane Cox was one of them-once. A brilliant biogenetic advisor, she helped design the very thing now haunting humanity: Project Apocalypse. It started as a pandemic solution. A neurological "booster" to build resilience. But buried in the code was something else-something that waits... and listens.

Now activated, the signal doesn't infect the body.
It rewrites the mind.

As the towers pulse and drones patrol the skies, Diane holds the last pieces of the truth-and the last chance to wake the world up before obedience becomes permanent. But someone is watching. Someone who wants the silence to stay.

Across a collapsing planet, pockets of resistance flicker.
A hunted niece with immunity.
An erased past.
A message that must be broadcast before it's too late.

Because COVID was just the rehearsal.
This is the full rollout.

VIRAL is a terrifyingly plausible dystopian thriller that dares to ask: What if they used the virus not to save us-but to train us?