Dean loves her madly from the moment he sees her. When the guy she is with starts pushing her around, Dean has to get involved. It's quick and it's violent. Later, languishing in a police cell, he wonders if he has ruined his life, and hardly dares hope he will ever see her again. But he does, and a dangerous love grows. Half a world away, something else is growing. A new pandemic. One that will make coronavirus look like a picnic.