Melissa and Blake Thomas are missionaries who have come home after service in the Amazon. Melissa is pregnant with their first child and they wanted to be with family. What they don't know is that they had been exposed to a deadly virus before they left and have now brought it back to their friends and loved ones, who, it is feared, are exposed at their welcome home party. While Melissa and Blake are fighting for their lives in a protected isolation area of the hospital, those who were exposed are under quarantine in their homes.
Due to the hospital not being completely truthful about the disease there is fear and speculation in Baxter and the surrounding communities. This leads to violence by a vigilante group.
One of the people who is under quarantine is the daughter of Jed and Rhonda Wilson, who played a major role in book one and a supporting role in book two. She has given birth, but is unable to be with her children so they are watched by a others.
I enjoyed this book and had trouble once again putting it down, but as I read I felt there were some parts that didn't mesh together really well. The addition of the vigilante group seemed out of place and not quite believable. And the second half of the book, after the resolution of the conflict with the vigilante group, was devoted to restoring relationships between fathers and children. I don't think I will list this book as a suspense book for that reason. However, the author showed how single, seemingly isolated events in peoples lives can be used in the big picture that God is creating, even though we can't see it at the time. Focusing on how, as the Bible states, " ... we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
I would give this book 4 stars.
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