In Walla Walla, Washington, the annual balloon stampede is a place of festivities and community. Families cheer and music echoes, until their world ends.
At the fairgrounds, a mysterious event brings people to collapse in waves. Seconds later, they’re up again, biting, clawing, and tearing into those they once loved. Panic surges through the festival and floods into the city. Within hours, hospitals, schools, and streets are consumed by violence that defies explanation.
Theories whisper through the chaos of an illness, a government cover-up, mass drug consumption, or sabotage buried in everyday life, but as the infected spread faster than answers, survival becomes the only law left for the small town.
From quiet neighborhoods to crowded streets, the infection tears through Walla Walla without pause, leaving survivors desperate and divided. The only offer for clarity lies within local shock DJs on The Morgue Radio Show broadcasting rumors and hope, every voice tells a fragment of the same truth, that Walla Walla has fallen.
But the dead aren’t the only danger. Fear and betrayal among the living may finish what the outbreak began. Survivors soon realize the greatest threat isn’t outside their barricades—it’s what desperation drives people to do inside 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 page one and doesn’t let go.