The Zero-Gen Midwife
A Novel of the First Natural Birth

About this book:

In a world where every birth is engineered, monitored, and perfected inside a calibrated pod, natural pregnancy is a forgotten crime—and Iris Vance is the system's most devoted technician. She tends the silent rows of decanters with clinical precision, ensuring each infant enters life without pain, risk, or the messy unpredictability of the old way. But down in the restricted archives, buried beneath layers of sanitized history, Iris discovers something the Ministry erased: proof that the "flawless" system is quietly failing, and that the first natural gestation in ninety years may already be underway.

Caught between a sister rising through the ranks of the enforcement bureaucracy and a underground network of women reclaiming their stolen biology, Iris becomes the unwilling midwife to a revolution measured in heartbeats. As the algorithmic hunt closes in and the line between protocol and treason dissolves, she must decide whether perfection is worth the price of humanity—and what it means to bring a child into a world that has outlawed the very act of being born.

*The Zero-Gen Midwife* is a taut, atmospheric thriller that asks what we lose when we optimize the miracle out of existence. For readers of *The Handmaid's Tale*, *Never Let Me Go*, and *The Giver*—a novel about the bodies we surrender, the histories we bury, and the terrifying, beautiful courage of a single unmonitored breath.