Quarantine A Novel Author:John Smolens An eloquent and dramatic portrait of a city plagued by mysterious pestilence?as the isolation of the quarantine reveals the darker side of human nature.The year is 1796, and a trading ship arrives in the vibrant trading town of Newburyport, Massachusetts. But it's a ghost ship?her entire crew has been decimated by a virulent fever that sweep... more »s through the harbor town, and Newburyport's residents start to fall ill and die with alarming haste. As the epidemic grows, fear, greed, and unhinged obsession threaten the Sumner family?and the future of Newburyport itself.« less