Prime Edit Zero

About this book:

**PRIME EDIT ZERO** is a razor-sharp biotech thriller where the ultimate intellectual property isn't code—it's you.

Eden Vance is Prime Edit Zero: the first human born with a surgically precise genetic cure for Huntington's disease, engineered by Nexus Biome before she took her first breath. Twenty-four years later, a routine blood panel reveals something the press releases never mentioned. Buried in the intron of her fourth chromosome sits a synthetic watermark—*PROPRIETARY: NEXUS-BIOME-PAT-2028-001-ZERO*—and downstream, an eight-hundred-base-pair binary payload engineered to fold into a molecular hairpin switch. If triggered, it silences the very gene that keeps her neurons alive. Eden isn't a patient. She's a patented asset with a kill switch written into every cell of her body.

Now, hunted by the corporation that owns her genome and racing against a biology she can't outrun, Eden must decode the trigger before Nexus activates it—or before the black-market syndicates selling pirated gene therapies find her first. From the gleaming towers of corporate genomics to the damp basements of open-source biohackers, *Prime Edit Zero* cuts to the bleeding edge of a future where your DNA is licensed, not owned, and the fine print is written in blood.