In the remote frozen hills of Maine, a group of top scientists gathers under a cloak of secrecy... THE TERROR BEGINS... As winter grips the sub-zero peaks, the peaceful little village is suddenly stricken by bizarre happenings?unexplained power surges, strange illnesses, alarming changes in blood chemistry... and corpses that refuse to die... A brilliant young medical troubleshooter and pathologist is called in to investigate. Dr. Susan Cullen's painstaking studies uncover a conspiracy of unthinkable proportions; a chilling medical experiment affecting both the living and the dead... AND THE NIGHTMARE EXPLODES... Stalked by a twisted psychopath, stunned by a sudden love affair, and confronted by multimillion dollar medical madness, Dr. Susan Cullen races to save the world from a horror worse than death ? a horror she has only begun to understand...