Fever House

Hutch Holtz is a leg-breaker, and one job takes him to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to recover overdue drug money from a client. Instead of cash, he finds a severed hand stored in the client's refrigerator. He soon learns that anyone near the hand is seized by an uncontrollable urge toward violence. Within hours the danger spreads. Covert government operatives who have been searching for the hand are closing in on Hutch, more of the city's residents are falling under its control, and all of Portland is teetering on the edge of catastrophe.

Katherine Moriarty was once a singer whose rise to fame was swift and whose collapse was just as steep. After her estranged husband died, reportedly by suicide in circumstances that remain unclear, she withdrew from public life. Trauma has left her agoraphobic, and she rarely leaves her apartment. Her son, Nick, moved back home to look after her, and he quietly earns his living working for Hutch's boss.

When Hutch calls Nick in a panic, asking him to take the hand off his hands, Katherine and Nick find themselves caught up in a global crisis that tears apart the stable life they have worked to build. Pursued by violent crowds and by untrustworthy government agents, mother and son must also confront old family secrets that have returned to haunt them. Those secrets, they discover, could hold the key to whether humanity survives.