First published 2021
Miles Cookson has built a fortune in tech, but a terminal diagnosis reframes everything. There is a fifty percent chance his illness passes to the next generation, and two decades ago, Miles donated sperm to make ends meet. Somewhere out there, nine biological children exist who have no idea he is their father. Miles starts searching for them, driven by equal parts guilt and urgency. Chloe Swanson is moving in the opposite direction. A twenty-two-year-old aspiring documentary filmmaker, she knows her mother used a New York sperm bank to conceive her, and she wants answers about who her biological father is. When Miles and Chloe find each other, the relief is short-lived. The other potential heirs are disappearing. No bodies, no forwarding addresses, no digital footprints. Someone is erasing them completely. Miles and Chloe do not know whether a rival heir is eliminating the competition, or whether the threat is coming from somewhere else entirely. The clock runs in two directions at once: Miles is dying, and whoever is hunting his children is not finished.
Genres: suspense, mystery, adult, adult-fiction, thriller
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, gripping, suspenseful, urgent
Tropes: found-family, multiple-perspectives, race-against-time, secrets-revealed
Setting: New York
Period: 21st-century, contemporary
471 pages · Paperback · HQ
Content warnings: death, murder, terminal-illness