Fallow

Jo Reddick built her career tracing the invisible chains of contagion—anything to avoid tracing the one that led back to Elam County, Nebraska, and the brother she lost in a grain silo twenty years ago. Now a CDC epidemiologist summoned home by an outbreak no textbook can explain, Jo finds eleven residents who have simply stopped sleeping. Their bodies deteriorate. Their minds do not. Something ancient beneath the fallow fields has awakened, fed by an experimental soil treatment and decades of buried dead, and it remembers everything the county tried to forget—including Billy.