Agents Of The Undertow

Seven years after the end of Pan21's reign, survivors like Helen Small--with their ashen skin and hair and eyes--are singled out, persecuted and vilified as living reminders of all the havoc and pain the virus had inflicted. In the Republic Of Texas a power-hungry politician has seized control, preying on people's fears that the virus has returned and the role survivors play in that return. Helen is trying to make sense of it all, to uncover the truth but truth may be as irrelevant as it is malleable. As the Republic falls deeper into a dystopian and totalitarian state Helen Small is hunted as a terrorist.

Outside force aren't all that conspire against her. Helen is haunted by her own guilt. Why didn't she die like everyone else? Why did her husband and child perish from Pan21? Why couldn't she have been with them when they died? How can she find meaning in this new world that fears her and sees her as a pariah? As she struggles to expose the truth she has to learn to overcome her own demons and shortcomings.