The Melter War has left the Earth's surface devastated, leaving humanity to survive on what little land is left between the Scorch Zones and the rising oceans, where towering subscrapers dot the dystopian shore lines.
Bobbie Chan is a doctor caring for the ultra-elderly in one such subscraper when she notices a mysterious, new disease afflicting her patients; some show signs of age reversal before a catastrophic, and often fatal, cardiac arrest strikes.
Bobbie begins to wonder if she is witnessing a bio weapon in full force. A Melter attack? Are they destined to finish the war they started?
Belus Corp, the 'savior' of humanity during the Melter War whisk the afflicted away; including Bobbie's grandmother. But Bobbie is terrified. The 'Rejuvenees' are getting younger but they are also becoming increasingly aggressive, uncontrollably so.
Bobbie begins a race against time to rescue the Rejuvenees and uncover their true enemy.
Genre: FICTION / Science Fiction / Genetic EngineeringThis is the first book in a trilogy and immediately went to #1 in its amazon categories and has remained consistently boyant in sales as the follow up books have been published over the past year
A worm flew up against the kitchen window. The grub stuck for a moment, then gravity peeled it off, dropping the worm into the rose bushes beneath, leaving a bleary smudge on the glass. The toddler, Joy, cackled on the lawn, her hand star-fished above her head from flinging the creature. Her other hand, curled into a fist around another worm, drifted toward her mouth. Strands of Joy’s black hair tangled with the worm and stuck to the mix of snot and muck smeared across her flush chubby cheeks.
The sight turned Bobbie’s stomach.
“Joy, let go!” Bobbie grabbed the child’s coiled fingers, aware that anger made her rougher than she should be and added a sharp edge to her voice.
Joy dropped to her knees and arched her back, flinging her head back into Bobbie’s stomach, causing the older sibling to release a gasp. Bobbie held on and pried the worm loose. One end of the creature was a bleeding mush, the other writhed, tickling the palm of Bobbie’s hand. Torn between disgust and pity, she stepped away from the toddler who rolled on the ground, pounding her dismay into the grass with clenched fists and kicking feet.
Bobbie ignored Joy’s screams and stared at the mess of worm. Should she put the creature out of its misery or tend to its wounds? At sixteen, Bobbie had her heart set on being a doctor, but that didn’t include administering to worms. Kinder to kill it and put it out of its misery.
Cringing, she dropped the worm to the ground before pressing the grub beneath her shoe, thankful that the sturdy sole did not transmit the sensation of a soft body squishing. Her imagination was not so considerate.
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