Murder is a crime. Forcing someone to live forever is something else entirely.In this explosive new thriller, the age-old quest for immortality becomes a terrifying tool for power and global control. The sinister reality of bioengineering explodes into public view near the Vatican, where a man survives a devastating Ferrari crash, ejected like a ragdoll yet standing up and walking away without a single injury. This impossible regeneration is not a miracle. It is a signal. The footage is rapidly scrubbed from existence by mysterious, unseen forces.Enter Nathan Kane, the brilliant CEO of Echelon Biotech, who built his empire on saving lives. His company, a pioneer in biological repair and cellular modulation, makes him a threat to the shadowy organization known only as The Pact. The Pact has perfected a synthetic peptide capable of initiating wound healing with impossible speed, reprogramming the genome to make regeneration the body's default state. Immortality is no longer theoretical.But Nathan has no interest in living forever. He is running out of time to save the only person who matters: his daughter, Sophie, who is battling an aggressive glioblastoma. And The Pact knows it.Nathan is drawn to Eterna Cay, a secretive island where a discovery once confined to the realm of science fiction has become terrifyingly real. But The Pact hasn't simply invited him into its world. It has found the one thing powerful enough to force him into it: Sophie.With his daughter's life being used as leverage, Nathan faces an impossible choice: save Sophie, or take down a system that could change everything we know about aging, longevity, disease, and death. And the deeper he goes, the harder it becomes to tell whether he is fighting against humanity's greatest medical breakthrough or the most dangerous weapon ever created.
