They weren’t aging. That made them a threat. The accident changed everything. In 2170, a pharmaceutical disaster rewrote human biology. Decades later, the children born of it—marked by golden eyes—stopped aging. To the world, they weren’t miracles. They were threats. Riva Dorn grew up inside that fear. Raised in a Children’s Colony under the unblinking eyes of machine caretakers, she was taught to obey, to conform, to survive. But Riva is different. She feels the current beneath the silence, the hum of systems no one else can hear. When a spark of rebellion brings the Colony’s grid crashing down, it exposes her gift—and draws the Alliance’s attention. Alix Troyer never asked for immortality. A genetic counselor, he thought he’d escaped the shadows of the past. But his father’s deathbed confession reveals a buried truth: Genetica Protect covered up problems with Uteroprotect, the drug that created the gold-eyes. Now Alix, marked by the very gift the world fears, has become the enemy. When a pandemic tears across the mortal population, fear turns violent. Secrets ignite revolutions. And survival demands impossible choices. Some bonds will spark hope. Others will bring everything crashing down. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Perfect for fans of genetic engineering sci-fi, dystopian survival thrillers, and character-driven conspiracy fiction.