Mind Plague (The Mind Plague Series Book 1)

A MIND IS A TERRIBLE THING TO LOSE...

Imagine a world in which nearly everyone has lost their ability to think. That’s exactly the world Franklin Strock wakes up into one morning. His wife and his neighbors .... and seemingly everyone else, appears afflicted by a total inability to remember who they are and worse, how to do even the simplest things. He soon realizes that something has erased the minds of most everyone except he and a small handful of others.

But like a handful of others, Strock escapes the ravages of the plague. With Ellie, his wife, who’d lost her mind and become a blank, he retreats to an uncle’s cabin deep in the woods. In the months that followed, he obtains everything he needs to survive from the abandoned homes and stores in the nearby lifeless villages, towns and cities, while trying to awaken Ellie’s mind and bring back the woman she was before the plague.

And then, nine months after the plague struck down humanity, while napping in an old recliner on the front porch of the cabin one warm, lazy afternoon in mid-June, Strock is awakened by the roar of a motorcycle approaching on a state highway a quarter mile down from the cabin. As the bike rounds a curve on the highway in front of the cabin, it hits something and careens off the road. Little does Strock realize that by going down to help the biker, he’ll be introduced to the frightening world that arose after the Mind Plague struck.

Scarsella’s nine crime and speculative fiction novels have been widely praised by reviewers and readers alike. Join him in this dystopian fable in which battling forces vie for the minds and souls of their fellow man who’s minds have gone blank.