Jaxon Blackout

THE UNREGISTERED BLOODThe blood test said she was clean. The microscope said something else. Seven years after a reanimation virus collapsed civilization, walled settlements survive on one promise: the blood test keeps you safe. School physician Perenna Quist believes this until she screens a six-year-old girl whose white blood cells are not fighting the virus. They are talking to it. Within fourteen hours, the child's records are deleted.
The blood sample vanishes. The family disappears. Perenna is told the reading was an equipment error. She knows it was not. What follows is a trail of missing children, erased census files, and physicians who asked the wrong questions and were never heard from again. The deeper Perenna digs, the clearer the pattern becomes: the government is not hiding a mistake. It is harvesting something. And the virus is learning.
The Unregistered Blood is a post-apocalyptic thriller about the lies institutions tell to survive and the people who carry the truth when the institutions decide the truth is too dangerous to exist. Some blood tests are designed to find infection. This one was designed to miss it.