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A TWISTED WORK OF LITERARY HORROR, FEATURING ONE OF AMERICAN HISTORY'S MOST NOTORIOUS AND PERSECUTED FIGURES -- TYPHOID MARYKaralee Soper, a graduate student in public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon -- -- the infamous disease carrier who came to be called Typhoid Mary. On a summer evening, while partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate -- -- in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades -- -- and can't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit. Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital.