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Contagion Protocol
In Walla Walla, Washington, the annual Balloon Stampede is meant to be a weekend of celebration. Families gather for music, food, and to watch balloons rise against the twilight sky, until their world ends.
At the fairgrounds, something unseen sweeps the crowd. People collapse in waves, only to lurch back up seconds later, biting, clawing, tearing into those they once loved. Panic explodes through the festival and surges into the city. Within hours, hospitals, schools, and streets are drowning in violence that defies explanation.
Rumors spread as quickly as the outbreak, with whispers of a strange illness, a government cover-up, drug-tainted crowds, or sabotage buried in everyday life. While theories multiply, answers never come. Survival becomes the only law left in the small town.
From quiet neighborhoods to crowded streets, the infection rips through Walla Walla without pause, leaving survivors desperate, divided, and clinging to fragile barricades. The only voice offering clarity belongs to The Morgue Radio Show, where shock DJs spin speculation, rumors, and hope into the static of the night. Each broadcast, each survivor's story, repeats the same grim refrain, Walla Walla has fallen.
The dead aren't the only danger, though. Fear and betrayal stalk the living as surely as the horde outside. In the end, the greatest threat may not be what crashes against the barricades, but what desperation drives people to do behind them.
Contagion Protocol is a brutal, fast-paced survival horror that blends outbreak chaos, small-town terror, and conspiracy-laced paranoia. Perfect for fans of World War Z and The Walking Dead, it delivers blood-soaked momentum from the first page and doesn't let go.
At the fairgrounds, something unseen sweeps the crowd. People collapse in waves, only to lurch back up seconds later, biting, clawing, tearing into those they once loved. Panic explodes through the festival and surges into the city. Within hours, hospitals, schools, and streets are drowning in violence that defies explanation.
Rumors spread as quickly as the outbreak, with whispers of a strange illness, a government cover-up, drug-tainted crowds, or sabotage buried in everyday life. While theories multiply, answers never come. Survival becomes the only law left in the small town.
From quiet neighborhoods to crowded streets, the infection rips through Walla Walla without pause, leaving survivors desperate, divided, and clinging to fragile barricades. The only voice offering clarity belongs to The Morgue Radio Show, where shock DJs spin speculation, rumors, and hope into the static of the night. Each broadcast, each survivor's story, repeats the same grim refrain, Walla Walla has fallen.
The dead aren't the only danger, though. Fear and betrayal stalk the living as surely as the horde outside. In the end, the greatest threat may not be what crashes against the barricades, but what desperation drives people to do behind them.
Contagion Protocol is a brutal, fast-paced survival horror that blends outbreak chaos, small-town terror, and conspiracy-laced paranoia. Perfect for fans of World War Z and The Walking Dead, it delivers blood-soaked momentum from the first page and doesn't let go.
266 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2025
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Monsuta
2 books2 followersMonsuta is a novelist, publisher, and recovering perfectionist. He likes to think he writes about the fragile machinery of the human condition. The way love, madness, and meaning weave through blood and code. Where science becomes myth, and emotion becomes weapon. He tries to encourage his work to blur the line between the human and the haunted, the digital and the divine.
A constant student of psychology and human behavior, Monsuta strives to craft worlds where emotion meets entropy: AI that ache, killers that crave meaning, and dreamers who refuse to wake.
He is a former podcaster and lifelong creative, as likely to feel at home in a quality lab with aerospace parts as he is at midnight writing sessions with black coffee, energy drinks, and heavy metal humming low.
When not writing, Monsuta collects music vinyl, childhood relics, and oddities that reminds him death is beautiful too.
He writes love stories that hurt, horror that whispers truth, and futures that feel uncomfortably near. He believes stories aren’t escapes; they’re excavations of humanity.
Like most authors, Monsuta finds himself speaking in third person while filling out bio sections.
A constant student of psychology and human behavior, Monsuta strives to craft worlds where emotion meets entropy: AI that ache, killers that crave meaning, and dreamers who refuse to wake.
He is a former podcaster and lifelong creative, as likely to feel at home in a quality lab with aerospace parts as he is at midnight writing sessions with black coffee, energy drinks, and heavy metal humming low.
When not writing, Monsuta collects music vinyl, childhood relics, and oddities that reminds him death is beautiful too.
He writes love stories that hurt, horror that whispers truth, and futures that feel uncomfortably near. He believes stories aren’t escapes; they’re excavations of humanity.
Like most authors, Monsuta finds himself speaking in third person while filling out bio sections.
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October 19, 2025
Unexpectedly Obsessed!! Just finished The Contagion Protocol and I did not expect it to go this hard. The pacing? Perfect. The characters? Actual humans, not zombie-movie clichés. And the story kept throwing curveballs I’ve never seen in this genre before.
It’s tense, smart, and somehow still hopeful. If you’re into fast, cinematic reads that don’t recycle the same old zombie stuff—this one’s it.
It’s tense, smart, and somehow still hopeful. If you’re into fast, cinematic reads that don’t recycle the same old zombie stuff—this one’s it.
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