The Dome meets Bloom in this three-part story of one town's desperate fight for survival against nature.

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When botanist Kris Rivera arrives in Boone, North Carolina to visit her aging parents, the last thing she expects is to get called in by the local college to identify an unusual plant found on a student field trip to the nearby native gardens. She's skeptical that it could be anything new; she'd grown up in Boone and she knows every plant by heart. Yet when she sees the strange plant--with its clustered blooms boasting pale blue petals and neon yellow pistil--she realizes she was wrong. This is something she's never seen before… Kris harvests a few samples, carefully transplanting them to the greenhouse at her childhood home. She watches them, studies them, cultivates them, all while communicating with the college and her peers back in Virginia.

 

At first, it seems like any another flower, only made novel because it's not been classified and it appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

 

Yet, the beautiful blossoms are only a precursor to the spherical pods. Pods which mature, dry, and suddenly burst forth with a noxious mix of poisonous, choking pollen and helicopter seeds.

 

Now, it's a race to destroy the plant that incites madness in some, and complete apathy for life in others. People are dropping like flies, either by their own refusal to live or by brutal attacks from those with the psychosis coined ‘Blue Madness’. The government quarantines Boone to stop the spread, but can they succeed? And where did the plants come from? The answer to that question might be the key to mankind's survival.