The Chlorophyll Graft
A Body Horror Novel

About this book:

In the algorithmic economy of Los Angeles, Iris's face is a depreciating asset—until a shadowy clinic in Topanga Canyon offers her a new currency: photosynthesis. The Phytoderm Protocol promises perfect, poreless skin that drinks sunlight and never ages. The price is a fourteen-hour surgery, a signed NDA, and the quiet surrender of her humanity. As chlorophyll rewrites her biology, Iris becomes the star of her own grotesque metamorphosis, broadcasting the bloom to millions who can't look away.

But the graft has appetites of its own. It hums with a slow, green pulse, stitching her nervous system into something vast and root-deep beneath the clinic's glass terraces. Hunger vanishes, replaced by a thirst for UV and a sensitivity to the chemical screams of the city. Her followers call it goals; her manager calls it content; the thing spreading across her collarbone calls it *home*. And down in the canyon, the other patients are starting to flower.

Lush, clinical, and rotting with dread, *The Chlorophyll Graft* is body horror for the influencer age—a razor-sharp dissection of the beauty-industrial complex where the ultimate self-optimization is becoming something that no longer needs a self at all.