Metastasis

"What ultimate price must we pay for the dark things our secret furies have loosed upon the world?" the police sergeant groaned. "And where there seems to be a particularly nasty concentration of such poisons, will retribution be commensurate? Out of control, yes. Killings, yes. Maybe the old legends are correct. Maybe we have produced the conditions Joshua Branderson warned us about." Louise looked at the splendor being unveiled by the rising sun: blue water, crescent beach, colorful dwellings climbing up both sides of Edenville River to meet conifers holding back the purple Cordelle Mountains. "I'm scared, Spence!" she gasped. "What is going to happen to this gorgeous city?" She had no idea retribution was poised to strike. NOTE: This is a sequel to The Diabolic Engine.