Echoes of the Gene

She can feel what you’re feeling. Now someone is weaponizing it.

Dr. Emily Harper experiences other people’s emotions as if they were her own. Fear arrives as physical pain. Grief settles behind her sternum. Other people’s attention becomes information she cannot turn off.

Nine days ago, Emily exposed the conspiracy behind the terminal gene—a discovery powerful enough to change humanity’s understanding of death. The revelation cost her fiancé, Tyler, his life. Now the people who want to control her have learned how to turn the discovery against her. According to Emily’s analysis, she has only a few days left to live.

Framed by a deepfake and hunted across a Boston winter by surveillance drones, Emily is forced into hiding. Every move is tracked by an AI that has spent weeks learning how she thinks, predicts how she will act, and knows exactly where she is most likely to break.

When her closest colleague is taken, Emily has only hours to mount a rescue with the last people she trusts—and at least one she doesn’t. To save her friend, she must confront not only the forces pursuing her, but the consequences of the discovery that started it all.

Echoes of the Gene is a literary techno-thriller about sacrifice, loss, and the weight of carrying another person’s final choice forward.

For listeners of Blake Crouch, Emily St. John Mandel, and Richard Powers.