A fictional story built around life-changing facts about the human alarm response, inherited tendencies and the way we detect danger.
Dr Sam Whitfield helps a woman pulled from the sea. She remembers nothing. Their meeting begins a journey into the hidden history of his family—and the questions he has always carried about himself.
At the heart of the story is a mystery written in human DNA: an ancient inheritance shared by everyone, but expressed more strongly in some. A heightened instinct. A mind that notices connections others miss. A familiar inner alarm that may hold a different meaning.
A study stretching back two thousand years has followed the families who carry it most strongly. As Sam follows the clues, he begins to ask whether something he has always struggled with might also be part of a capacity he has never fully understood.
The characters, conspiracy and hidden study are fiction. The real foundations invite you to reconsider what your own mind and body are doing—and why.
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