Wax Dragon

Daniel Fisher is sick. When he awakes from a hypnotic delirium; he is in the hotel room where he has been living for the last ten months on work assignment. As he recuperates, he discovers that the power is out, communication is impossible, and he is almost completely alone in the world. He has survived a sickness that has claimed nearly everyone around him and he is eight hundred miles from home. As he sets out across the countryside to discover the fate of his family he encounters other survivors who have shared the same illness, and who are now trying to reconstruct their lives based on the assumptions that each holds about what happened; what it means to them; and how best to rebuild their lives. They will all discover that the world, without our complex network of food and supplies, has become an unregulated frontier: It is unpredictable and dangerous. In order to survive Daniel must learn to adapt to the shifting conditions of a constantly changing landscape of characters, interacting with those he can, defending himself against those he must, and discovering the measure of the man he is.