Lengthening

Dr. Wren Calloway is twenty-six years old and the smartest person in every room she walks into. She graduated from high school at sixteen, finished college at eighteen, and earned her medical degree at twenty-one. For three years, she's been working on something no one else has been able to crack—a compound she calls Strand-7, designed to rebuild the protective caps on human chromosomes and slow the process of aging at the cellular level.The morning her lab results come back eighteen percent beyond her best projection, she knows the science is real. What she doesn't know is that someone else already knows it, too.When surveillance equipment turns up in her lab, professional searchers move through her apartment, and a man with a forgettable face begins appearing in her building with a visitor badge that doesn't match any official record, Wren understands that the compound she built to help people has already been noticed by people who want it for themselves. With her colleague Dr. Declan Morrow at her side, she races to protect the research, document the threat, and get the truth into the right hands before Gavin Stellan and the organization behind him can take what she built and use it on their own terms.The Lengthening is the first book in The Strand Protocol—a four-book series about a scientist who refuses to let her life's work become a weapon.