A simple swab of her cheek made Claire Matthews a target.
Starting her new job at Phillips Pharmaceuticals was supposed to be a step toward the future she craved. But when a handsome stranger approaches her with claims about the company’s dark secrets, Claire can’t help but question her choices—and her safety.
Simon Lawrence’s mission in life is to save his people from extinction. Everything changes when he meets a young woman he hopes to recruit to his cause. She manages to get under his skin and seeps into his soul. Duty and desire clash in ways he never expected.

On her first day at the lab, Claire’s life takes a terrifying turn when her genetic sample sets off alarms. Desperate and on the run, she turns to Simon for help, trusting a man she barely knows. As she uncovers unbelievable facts about her heritage, Claire is drawn into a dangerous world she never imagined—a world where the stakes involve not only her life, but the survival of an entire species.

As Claire unearths the shocking truth about her DNA, she’s forced to make an impossible choice: embrace a life she never asked for or risk everything to protect a world she’s only just begun to understand.