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In the remote research town of Coldbreak, Alaska, Native Alaskan microbiologist Dr. Maya Blackwood
discovers ancient microbes awakening in thawing permafrost. Her warnings are buried by officials eager
to exploit newly accessible Arctic resources. When a pipeline construction crew unwittingly releases a
prehistoric fungal organism that bonds with modern bacteria, the resulting pathogen begins altering
human neural pathways, creating "networked" individuals who serve a collective fungal consciousness.
Three years after civilization's collapse, Maya leads a desperate mission back to Coldbreak-now
transformed into a pulsing, bioluminescent ecosystem-to retrieve her original research that might
contain the key to fighting the organism. Her team includes Jackson Cole, a PTSD-afflicted former Special
Forces operative; Ellie Nakamura, a structural engineer designing fungal-resistant shelters; Darius
Washington, a reformed fracking executive seeking redemption; and Zoe Williams, a teenage tech
prodigy who realizes the fungal network functions like a quantum computer.
As they navigate America's transformed landscape where abandoned human structures have become
breathtaking yet deadly fungal architectures, they discover the network isn't merely consuming
civilization-it's creating something entirely new. With evidence that the organism is approaching critical
mass to release high-altitude spores that would engulf the planet, the team races against time while
questioning whether they're fighting an invasion or witnessing evolution. When Maya begins
experiencing strange connections to the network herself, she faces an impossible choice: destroy what
might be Earth's next evolutionary leap or save what remains of humanity.