State Level

An anonymous tip. A printed diagram. A genome profile number that traces, through a chain of cross-references, to a man who's been shaping the federal investigation from the inside.Counterintelligence analyst Tate Garfield has spent eleven years finding the gaps between systems-the places where information from one database touches information from another without either one knowing. When an unmarked envelope lands on her desk with a network map and a two-page list, she starts pulling the thread. What she finds unravels fast: a foreign head of state who didn't just buy into the program, he replicated it. A senior domestic official whose genome sits in the SL archive flagged for executive continuity. A scientific advisor who's been advising the prosecution while managing what it finds. And a woman named Mira Keane, who designed the recruitment pipeline for three separate facilities and has been invisible inside the federal investigation for months. The program didn't just serve the wealthy. It served power. And the cover-up isn't about hiding what was done-it's about hiding who it was already done for.Returning characters Petra Ross and Sloane Archer converge with Tate Garfield in the fourth and final installment of P. A. Farrell's dark biotech series-a story about what happens when the program reaches the highest levels of government, and about what a congressional hearing room can and can't contain. And about the message that arrives after everything, from a new burner number, that says: I know what Phase Three is. When you're ready. P. A. Farrell is a psychologist and published author with McGraw-Hill, Springer Publishing, Cafe Lit, Ravens Perch, Humans of the World, Active Muse, Free Spirit Publishing, Scarlet Leaf Review, 100 Word Project, Woodcrest Magazine, Confetti, and LitBreak. She's a top health writer for Medium.com, has published self-help books, and is a board member of Clinics4Life. She lives on the East Coast of the US.