First the flood
Next the sickness
Last the change

While waiting for a train to Haewon, an isolated Korean seaside village, bodyguard Mu-young gets a disaster alert on her phone. TVs throughout the station report breaking news of a massive earthquake on the eastern coast. Despite the danger, Mu-young boards the train with her niece: she’d rather face the earthquake than leave the girl in her mother’s care. That choice haunts her for the rest of her life.

Three years later, Haewon Village is home to horrors. The earthquake unleashed an plague that transforms its victims into fishy monsters, and the government’s quarantine order has cut off any hope for help. Mu-young’s niece is dead, and all that’s left for her is to hunt villagers who break isolation. When an officious bureaucrat from Seoul arrives in the village, he stirs up even deeper trouble. Will Mu-young survive? Does she even deserve to?

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket

Author: Kim Bo-Young

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Pub Date: August 11, 2026

Category: Fiction / Horror / Cosmic & Eldritch

ISBN: 9781250380753

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