REJECTING EVE When the body rejects itself, what survives? Eve has always trusted science more than people. Analytical, precise, and quietly detached from the emotional undercurrents around her, she believes biology follows rules - even when human behavior does not. But biology is about to betray her. Across the city, Dr. Aurora Hauck operates a respected cord blood preservation company built on the promise of medical security and future health. Behind its polished façade, however, lies a far more ambitious pursuit: eliminating immune rejection through controlled human replication. If the body could be taught not to reject transplanted tissue - or even identical genetic copies - disease itself could be rewritten. There is just one problem. The clones do not fail the way Aurora anticipated. They don't reject the original. They reject themselves. Each iteration deteriorates in increasingly violent and inexplicable ways, as if the immune system is at war with its own identity. Searching for the cause, Aurora uncovers a rare biological anomaly buried deep within her genetic archive - a single immune profile that does not fracture under replication. Eve's. When Eve survives a brutal attack by a woman who looks exactly like her, the boundaries between science and identity collapse. Subtle sensory distortions ripple through her body. Familiar reflections feel delayed. Her instincts begin to fracture under the weight of a terrifying possibility: she is not unique. Detective Tony Emerson is already investigating irregularities connected to Aurora's company, but as his suspicions tighten, he finds himself circling a truth far more destabilizing than corporate fraud. Because in a world where the immune system is designed to destroy what it does not recognize, survival may require becoming the very thing that tried to replace you.
