Two weeks after the world went quiet, humanity stopped being human.A bio engineered parasite, once meant to rewrite DNA for healing, leaked into the water supply.Now it spreads through warm blood and standing pools, adapting differently in every host.Some mutate. Some dissolve. Some learn to think.In the decaying remains of the quarantine zones flooded cities, rural wastelands, and sealed towns a fractured group of survivors tries to stay alive long enough to remember who they were.Elias Ward, a paramedic haunted by the cure he helped design.Mara Quinn, a teacher who still believes humanity can be saved.Kian Reyes, a street mechanic who trusts no one not even himself.Nira Holt, a botanist whose veins hide something growing.Jonas Ward, a soldier broken by the orders he obeyed.Ruth "Roo" Hale, a silent girl whose blood may hold the key to everything.Every heartbeat feels borrowed. Every shadow might breathe.As the infection learns to evolve, the line between survival and transformation blurs.And in a world where the disease mirrors the soul, no one stays clean for long.The Age of Infection: Book One Gone to Sh*t is a gritty post apocalyptic thriller about trust, mutation, and the cost of staying human when the world has already moved on.