The Serpent's Embrace

<p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What If Science Could Make You Immortal?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For centuries humanity has pursued the dream of immortality. Myths religions and now science all point toward the possibility of defeating aging. But what if someone had already unlocked the secret-and what if the consequences were far more terrifying than anyone ever imagined?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Serpent's Embrace is a brilliantly crafted scientific thriller that delves into genetic engineering corporate power and the ethical dilemmas of science drawing readers into a fast-paced morally complex and deeply unsettling world.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Highly principled visionary cancer researcher Richard Trent discovers what he believes is the anti-aging gene. He resolves to develop a genetic cure for heart disease strokes Alzheimer's and all the other diseases of aging.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But his claim is sabotaged by his university department chair whose own biotech company is bankrolled by a pharmaceutical corporation that would face disastrous losses if a cure for aging diseases were freely available.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dismissed from his university post Richard resolves to prove that he is right. Enter the entrepreneur Maria Snowe half Maya Indian who is revered by her Maya retainer as the reincarnation of the serpent goddess Ixchel. Maria tempts Richard with the means to revolutionize medical science-subject to one condition. That condition shocks his assistant Lucy Jonnsen.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Richard discovers that Maria's agenda goes way beyond what he imagined.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As apparently accidental deaths of people involved in his work increase Lucy battles with Maria for Richard's soul as each step he takes involves an ever greater sacrifice of his integrity until he is forced to choose between scientific immortality at an awesome cost or the death of his dream.</span></p>