Mortal Fracture (The Telomere Chronicles)
(Book #2 in the The Telomere Chronicles Series)
She cured death. She cannot save her children.
Fifty-seven years after Summer Lotte gave humanity the gift of immortality, the world she built is the most peaceful civilization in history. Death is a choice. Violence is an aberration. The planet is healing. And Summer's four adopted children-the only mortal children on Earth-are dying of a genetic mutation no one can explain.
When a brutal ambush on the road to Tabghazup kills two teenagers and kidnaps a mother and daughter, the long peace shatters. Summer's cure is sabotaged from within. Her husband Edward's long-lost sister emerges from decades of captivity with intelligence that could save them all-or destroy everything. A rebel army is gathering in the unmapped territories. A philosopher king is running human experiments in a fortress carved from limestone. And someone inside Summer's own security perimeter is feeding information to the enemy.
As Summer races to crack the mutation before it claims another child, she uncovers a conspiracy that predates her cure-a shadow architecture built beneath the foundations of paradise by men who believed immortality was an abomination. The deeper she digs, the more the lines blur between ally and enemy, between the people who want to save the world and the people who want to watch it burn. Her husband marches into a trap to rescue the mother he thought he'd lost. Her closest friend faces an impossible choice in a madwoman's laboratory. And the mutation itself begins to reveal a secret that will rewrite everything Summer thought she knew about the science that made her famous.
The mutation is not a flaw. It is a message.
Mortal Fracture is the second book in The Telomere Chronicles, a genre-defying saga that braids literary science fiction, pulse-pounding thriller, and devastating emotional depth into a story about what happens when paradise develops cracks-and the people who must decide whether to seal them or tear the whole thing down.Customer Reviews
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