SYNDROME

They were promised a miracle cure for the deadly diseases destroying theirlives. It seemed too good to be true, but to the desperate and dying it was theonly chance for survival. Now they’re part of a bizarre secret experiment thatreverses the aging process – an experiment gone out of control. To stop themadness, one woman must enter a shocking nightmare world, where scientistscontrol your body – and your mind – and living makes you beg for death . . .

In her mid‑thirties, Alexa Hampton runs her own interior design firm in New York’s Soho and has adaily run to keep fit. But now her world is narrowing as a childhood heartmishap increasingly threatens to lethally impact her life. Then out of nowhereher black‑sheep younger brother appears and insists she go to a clinic inNew Jersey to enter stem‑cell clinical trials that are working wonders. Theclinic is owned by her brother’s boss, the eccentric millionaire WinstonBartlett.

Also interested in the clinic is the medical reporter Stone Aimes, who’s hopingto penetrate Bartlett’s veil of secrecy and find out what’s going on there.He has personal as well as professional reasons for wanting to get closer toWinston Bartlett. He is also a long‑ago lover of Alexa’s and stillcarrying something of a torch for her though they have long been out of touch.

As Alexa investigates the clinic, their paths cross and together they slowlyuncover the horrifying truth about what can happen when stem‑celltechnology is taken to its ultimate limit. A bizarre secret experiment toreverse the aging process has gone out of control. Winston Bartlett’s youngmistress, the TV personality Kristen Starr, had an anti‑aging procedurethat went awry and now all her cells are being replaced with new. The sideeffects are horrific. No one can stop what is happening: she is growingyounger, destined to become a child again. Bartlett has had the same procedure and now he knows he’snext. It’s only a matter of time till he too regresses to childhood, and then .. . no one knows.

Alexa and Stone become prisoners in the clinic and then Bartlett and his Dutchmedical researcher Karl van der Vliet begin a bizarre experiment on Alexa,hoping to produce antibodies to save Kristen, and Bartlett. In a stunning,blazing finale, Alexa turns the tables on them all, only to discover that she’snow, suddenly unlike anyone else who has ever lived.

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