The Devil By Name
‘Where were you when the Message came through?’ THE DEVIL BY NAME opens five years after FEVER HOUSE, with survivors finally starting to find a new equilibrium in a world overrun by the zombie-like “fevered.” We meet Naomi, a teenage girl in France with the unique ability to draw the fever out of the afflicted. Naomi has fallen under the control of a vicious man, but the American intelligence community will stop at nothing to bring her and her power to the US.
Back in the US, we find American survivors weighted down by guilt for the lives they couldn’t save: Katherine is a grieving mother living under an assumed name in Cape Cod, visiting her fevered son in a dead-bolted garden shed under the cover of night, and Dean is a peddler who lives on the road, scavenging, selling, trading, and trying to forget the family he once had. When the demonic force that was behind the fever re-emerges, Katherine, Dean, and Naomi will have to make a dangerous journey across a ravaged America, all while scouring the secrets of their own pasts in order to save the world in a heart-stopping, breakneck saga of survival.
Keith Rosson
Keith Rosson is the author of the critically acclaimed Fever House duology, Coffin Moon, and novels Smoke City, Road Seven, and The Mercy of the Tide, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award-winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his family. IG: @rossonkeith; BLUESKY: @keithrosson.bsky.social; TIKTOK: @keithrosson
