“The book’s large amount of exposition—on everything from nanotechnology to cetacean biology—is smoothly integrated into the fast-paced narrative.” --- Kirkus Reviews
When the heart sees more keenly than the eye, beauty is unexpectedly found.
Gen is a teen-age woman. She is also a bio-warfare research project,
designed by Col. Jack Eberhard. Born at Redstone Military Laboratories inside a
quarantine unit rated Biohazard Level Four, Gen’s body
harbors billions of microscopic organisms that have mutated from her genetically
altered cells. The tiny entities in Gen’s
tissues control life at the molecular level and Eberhard weekly tests
their ability to heal the simulated combat
wounds he inflicts on her.
When a deadly threat forces Gen to escape the
lab, she discovers that her marvelous power to reconstruct living tissue, from
proteins to cells to whole organs, enables her to transform herself bodily into
any animal whose DNA she collects through a simple touch.
While in the form of a dolphin, Gen saves dolphin
researcher Cade Seaborne from drowning. Her heartfelt attraction to him compels
her to spontaneously shape-shift back into human form; but the morphing is
incomplete and Cade encounters Gen as a woman with her head and face hideously
deformed.
As Gen struggles with her dilemma of falling
in love with a kind-hearted man who nonetheless regards her as pitifully ugly,
the evolving microscopic life-forms inside her compel her to complete a frightening
journey to fulfill their mysterious mission. Meanwhile, Eberhard has tracked down
Gen and he’s sending in Special Forces to carry out a priority-one Executive
Order: capture and destroy his dangerous experiment. When Cade at last recognizes beauty behind
the mask of a beast, he’ll give his life to protect the unusual woman he
cherishes. And he learns that love has its own transformative power.
Michael
Crichton meets Hans Christian Anderson in this romantic thriller with the
brains of science fiction and the heart of a fairy tale.
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