Summary

Chapter 11 is set in the future in the year 2037, after most of the Shore’s population has been wiped out by a horrific new plague that targets the reproductive organs. The Shore has lost all contact with the rest of the world, and most survivors have formed into marauding bands that fight and kill for increasingly scarce resources.

The focal character is Tamara Lumsden, the granddaughter of Pierce Lumsden. Prior to the plague, she led a drug-addled lifestyle of extreme sexual promiscuity. Once the plague arrived, she was diagnosed as an asymptomatic carrier, and fled when the medical facility attempted to keep her there for testing purposes, in the hope of developing a cure.

She left behind her mother and brother in their trailer outside Belle Haven and took refuge with her lover, Willie, in the derelict shack on the Lumsden property where Chloe...