A global drama spiraling out of an ancient secret into a fast-paced, modern world infused with cybercrime, genetic manipulation, and mind control. A world in which humanity serves as unwitting pawns in a conflict with unknown forces, and nothing is as it seems. A gifted and striving graduate student's life is disrupted by a seemingly innocuous birthday gift, which plunges her into a shadowy world of international power and money and a conspiracy that spans millennia. She is seduced by opportunity, then forcibly taken and held against her will. Subject to bizarre experimentation, profound mutations emerge. Her struggle for freedom and survival depends on unlikely allies and discovering her unique, coveted treasure that connects the ancient with the future and our origins with eventual fate.
