Rogue Experiment

https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1497473721

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.”

— Oscar Wilde.

My novel Rogue Experiment is available for pre-order on Amazon as well as other vendors such as Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo. The release date is February 28th, 2020.

Rogue Experiment is a science fiction/mystery novel about college professors that perform a radical experiment on students to boost their intelligence and physical abilities. But the professors’ worlds turn upside down when one of the students from the experiment ends up comatose.

He is now in the hospital, on the verge of death. His parents are grieving, demanding answers from the police and from the hospital staff. No one has answers. At least no one is telling them what is really going on.

The main character, Doctor Selena Cato-Sanchez, is a biology professor at Glebe University that all the students admire and respect. She has written biology textbooks and is always available to help her students with homework and with reviewing for exams. Now that the police are involved, the university is cooperating with them to solve the mystery of whodunit. Selena is a suspect, given her association with the lead scientist of the experiment, who has been arrested. Her colleague and good friend, professor Randall Birchine, is also a suspect.

A no nonsense detective, Locke, is investigating all the professors involved, gathering evidence to put them away in prison. Since Selena is on his radar, she must figure out what happened to the comatose student and where the experiment went wrong. She soon learns that the drug is restructuring his brain to a staggering degree that no human could possibly cope with. In fact, he will die if he doesn’t get a cure soon. With the detective on her tail, and with the drug destroying the student’s brain, she races against time to find a cure before he dies and she is arrested.

Later in the novel, Selena discovers that the drug has the power to give anyone superhuman abilities, making them a threat to humanity. With Randall by her side, and two police officers who believe she is innocent, she must keep the drug from getting into the wrong hands before they use it for evil.

The story has a wonderful cast of characters, including Selena, the caring biology professor, Randall, her wisecracking colleague who teaches mathematics, detective Locke, a hardboiled detective whose distrust of everyone makes him a force to be reckoned with, and a mad scientist who is bent on making a scientific breakthrough no matter the cost, even at the expense of others.

The story delves into the risks and ethics of experimentation, and at what cost will someone go to make a scientific discovery. Is it all worth it?

Pre-order the novel. You’ll enjoy it.