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The Silent Lineage: Project Ascendant
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A fertility specialist. A secret program. And a generation of children who were never supposed to know what they are.
Dr. Elias Voss is a brilliant reproductive endocrinologist driven by a single conviction: human limitation is not a tragedy to be mourned - it is a problem to be solved. Working in the lower level of a Chicago fertility clinic, beneath the warm brochures and the smiling couples, he has spent years quietly doing what no one sanctioned and no one knows. The embryos he treats are viable. The children born from his care are healthy. And some of them are something more.
When investigative journalist Daniel Reyes is approached by a genomics researcher named Mara Chen with evidence she can barely believe herself, he is already a man in retreat - from his career, from his instincts, from the story he stopped telling himself he was built to find. What Mara has found pulls him back into the only work he ever truly understood. What they uncover together is larger, older, and more deliberately constructed than either of them is prepared for.
Lucas Hale is eleven years old when his world begins to feel like it doesn't fit him correctly. He is not wrong about that. By the time he understands why, the people responsible for what he is are already under investigation, the institution that enabled them is in damage control, and the question of what to do with the truth - how to tell it, who to protect, what it costs to make it public - is being answered by adults whose competing interests do not always align with his.
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