Danny George

A cancer cure has side effects. Shutting down all vital organs except for part of the brain turning them primal, feral and cannibalistic. They're also infectious and now spreading worldwide. Two people are brought together. Both have secrets, nightmares and personal tragedies. Has the human race finally destroyed itself?

Set near the end of the Third Age of Middle-earth. Arathorn takes refugees to Taurdal, the village of his father, Arador. Then as Arador begins his campaign against the gathering orc bands in the north, he sends Arathorn onward to find the motive behind these Orcs attacks.