3 Days

3 Days
Earth-based SF Thriller

For struggling filmmaker Andie McKenna, life could be better. Her fledgling film company is about to go under, she's seventy-two hours away from being kicked out of her rent-by-the-week shoe box of an apartment in the dodgiest part of San Francisco, and her marriage is on the rocks.

And if things couldn't get worse, she receives a cryptic telegram from the Mexican orphanage where she grew up: "Come quick, your father is dying."

Interesting, since she's an orphan.

Andie rushes to the orphanage to find Father Pakal Ramirez, the priest who raised her alive and well. He's going into the jungle after a lethal parasite, and he wants to see her in case he doesn't return.

When Andie is accidentally exposed to the parasite, Pakal draws her blood and gives her an anti-parasitic. She reacts to the medication and passes out. When she wakes, Pakal is gone.

Furious beyond words and poorer for it, Andie returns to San Francisco to find the Bay Area plunged into chaos. Something fell from the sky and crashed north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Something not made by humans.

And then there's a frozen, long-forgotten vial of blood, locked in a metal box and buried in the orphanage's freezer. Blood that will impact Andie's life irrevocably and shatter the illusion that we are alone in the universe.