John Barber, a brilliant scientist begins the final chapter of his working career running a top-secret U.S. government laboratory created to kill gain-of function viruses. His passion, other than his wife and two children, is to find a cure for the genetic disorder progeria which ages children viciously fast; his sister died of old age at thirteen. He discovers instead the impossible. There is nothing more terrifying than reality. What you are about to read can happen; not all, just the scariest parts. Murder, sex, hate, and perfection drive humanity today, not just in the future.