The Cured walker
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In the corpse-strewn ruins of Boston, the only thing more dangerous than the shambling dead are the living who remain. For Natalie, a pragmatic young engineer, survival is a calculated, daily torment. She is infected—a secret she guards with her life. The virus is a ticking clock, a monster whispering in her ear, threatening to erase the person she was and unleash something feral and deadly known as a Runner.
Her only anchor is Marcus, her estranged father. Haunted by his failures in their old life, he now clings to a desperate, single-minded mission: find a cure for his daughter. Their fragile existence in a dilapidated apartment, aided by a weary doctor, is a precarious balance of scavenging and hiding from the city’s ruthless factions—the tyrannical Emergency Government Security Force, the slave-taking cult known as The Family, and the fanatical Superhumans who worship the virus as evolution.
When a rumor surfaces of a "Whisperer"— another stable infected like Natalie, held in a high-security EGSF lab—it ignites a dangerous spark of hope. Forced to abandon their sanctuary, Natalie and Marcus embark on a harrowing journey across the city. It is a quest that will test their fractured bond to its limits, force Natalie to confront the terrifying power awakening inside her, and reveal that the cure they seek is a phantom.
Hunted as a key, a weapon, and a prophet, Natalie must learn that salvation may not lie in becoming human again, but in mastering the monster she is becoming. The path to a future, for herself and for the scattered survivors, will demand a final, terrible price: to stand as the guardian between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and to redefine what it truly means to be human.