NanoMorphosis

A lethal climate, a manmade plague, and hostile aliens. 

When ambitions collide, one woman is caught in the middle and the future of Earth hangs in the balance.

Daniel Walker is reluctantly famous for being the sole survivor of first contact. With no forewarning, huge bird-like aliens destroyed Earth’s outposts, slaughtering his parents and their fellow scientists in the middle of a televised event. Young Daniel escaped by hiding in a storage tube where he remained trapped for days awaiting rescue. As an adult, he still struggles with flashbacks and claustrophobia, but with the support of his uncle and his fiancé, Daniel employs his unwanted fame to achieve a single-minded ambition— to fulfill his parents’ dream of finding a habitable new world.

Cadmon Dhyre was also orphaned at an early age, but his experience was worlds apart. Cadmon has no memory of his parents and grew up alone and unloved in a Carrier Camp for those afflicted with the disfiguring ‘toad’ virus. Through no fault of their own, Carriers are shunned and despised by Normals. The toad virus resulted from a government experiment using a nanogenetic interfacer to adapt humans to low-g. Unfortunately, the nanogen mutated when introduced to Earth’s environment and destroyed millions of lives. Young Cadmon was gifted with a brilliant mind and when his genius came to the attention of a scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Nanotechnology, he was given the opportunity to leave the camp and work in the world of Normals, Cadmon became a renowned medical researcher and nanotechnologist, but never accepted socially due to his disfigurement. He is determined to find a cure despite a ban on nanogenetic research, but as he finds himself blocked at every turn, he grows increasingly bitter and ruthless.

Daniel Walker is prepared to face the aliens again in his journey to a distant world, never anticipating the source of a far greater threat will come from the ambitions of Cadmon Dhyre.