Brilliant pre-med student Amoreena Daniels needs money. Desperately. her mother is dying of metastatic cancer and the medical insurance has run out. When a women's clinic contacts Amoreena to offer a generous payment for service as a surrogate mother, Amoreena thinks her prayers have been answered. But then -- much too early -- her baby begins to move.

Her strange dreams, another surrogate's mysterious death, and a drug-addicted former medical intern confirm Amoreena's worst suspicions: there is something terribly wrong with her pregnancy. Amoreena embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the truth behind the endless battery of genetic tests, sonograms, and frightened patients, only to discover that she has unwittingly become a pawn in a high-stakes game of biomedical experimentation.

In the tradition of Robin Cook and Richard Preston, Alan Nayes has written an absorbing and terrifying novel about what happens when human beings have the ability to save their own lives -- by changing the face of humanity.