A pregnant bioengineer and her husband must find a way to survive their hostile, famine-devastated world after she is turned into a mutant by eco-terrorists.
Eco-terrorists have plunged the world into a GMO famine, and bioengineer Dinah Baker has broken their Search Siege by going outside to eat fallen fruit off her plague-stricken, genetically modified apple tree. After starving for almost a week, Dinah fears she will lose her two-month pregnancy if she goes one more day without eating. But anyone caught out of doors by the Thornmint Searchers during the week-long house arrest is administered a gene therapy serum that turns them into mutants with two-inch claws and scaly green skin—and they are dissected alive as a symbolic form of torture.
When Dinah is caught by the eco-terrorists, she is turned into a mutant while her husband is left human. Now the couple must fight for survival while making ever-greater sacrifices to preserve their humanity and love for one another in their hostile, famine-devastated world—at least long enough for the baby to come.
My debut novel DESTINY OF SPECIES is a character-driven dystopian love story with a hard sci-fi backdrop.
This is still a work in progress. Please enjoy the first ~13k.