Life for Patrick Copeland has not been easy since he was viciously attacked and left for dead one night. He barely survived, and the damage to his brain has left him with horrifying nightmares of the incident, unsettling hallucinations, and a scattered, unreliable memory. Without his patient wife, Marina, to keep him on track, he is certain he would not be able to go on in his condition. While the attack may have looked like an isolated crime, Patrick knows the truth about why it happened—his attackers were after the information of a humanity-changing genetic sequence that his father, a brilliant geneticist, left him before his death. After discovering the body of the woman that raised him, and the only other person to know about the sequence, Patrick knows his safe, quiet life is over...but he definitely wasn't as prepared for the unraveling of everything he thought he knew about himself and the people around him...