Forbidden Strain

They vanished without a trace. Someone is rewriting the human genome—and the future of humanity.When a high-ranking government official is found murdered in a Santa Fe hotel, FBI Agent Liz Shaw and Detective Alejandro Hernandez are pulled into a case no one wants solved. Their investigation leads to a remote facility hidden beneath tribal land—Red Mesa Biotechnics—a company that claims to develop sustainable technology.It's a lie.Funded by the global elite, Red Mesa is perfecting a serum that could extend human life for a thousand years. Children—missing from the reservation—are being used as unwilling test subjects. Over it all, a new kind of intelligence is watching: EVE, a quantum-engineered bio-AI designed to manipulate DNA at the molecular level.As wildfire races across the New Mexico desert, Shaw, Hernandez, and their team must unravel a conspiracy older than science itself—one built on stolen gold, buried identities, and the bodies of the innocent.The truth has been hidden underground.Until now.