Rot: A Wilderness Sepsis Story

By Rorke Galt

A single cut.
A delayed infection.
A body that fails quietly.

Callan knows the wilderness. He knows risk, triage, and how quickly small mistakes become fatal ones. When a knife slips during routine field work deep in the backcountry, the injury looks clean-manageable. For a while, it is.

Then the infection begins.

With no antibiotics, no rescue, and miles of unforgiving terrain between him and help, Callan is forced to keep moving as his body turns against him. Fever rises. Judgment erodes. Time fractures. Decisions that once felt automatic begin to fail in sequence.

ROT: A Wilderness Sepsis Story is not a survival fantasy. It is a clinical, unflinching account of delayed consequence-of how competence degrades, how the mind lies to protect itself, and how sepsis does not need drama to win.

This is a standalone novel about endurance without heroics, danger without spectacle, and the narrow window between "fine" and irreversible.

Whatever happened, already has.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKVRMJ5K
• ISBN13: 9798246315798
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"