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    Birth of the Forbidden
    Birth of the Forbidden
    Birth of the Forbidden
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    Birth of the Forbidden

    By RM Alexander

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    Dr. Sophia Collingsworth plays a dangerous balancing act with science. The government turns it into a deadly game, taking control of the lab she's spent decades building. Wanting to tip the scales, Sophia's final moves are down to a lifetime's worth of work. And her conscious.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRM Alexander
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781536595192
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      Birth of the Forbidden - RM Alexander

      Birth of the Forbidden

      Copyright 2016 RM Alexander

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, including electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return it to the seller and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the author’s work.

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      Birth of the Forbidden

      Chapter One

      October 1999

      A WOMAN LAY ON THE metal gurney, dressed in a white hospital gown, jet black hair drowned in sweat and matted to her ashen face. Scientists surrounded the table, noted vitals and monitored her progress while ignoring her pleas for an epidural. The men and women scurried around the table and scribbled on their clipboard.

      Her screams remained unheard.

      Above the room, Sophia Collingsworth peered through the double paned glass at the test subject below, arms crossed tight across her chest. After months of preparation and tests and failures—deaths—a success. Finally, a success.

      The first success since the birth of a little girl fifteen years earlier. Fifteen years...

      Sophia drew in a heavy, silent sigh. Time to reminisce over that child has long since passed, and Sophia was not a woman to trudge down memory lane. And if it was a memory she wanted to revisit—and she didn't— there was no time to think about that right now. The agreement was never to think about it again, and if Sophia Collingsworth was anything, she was a woman of her word.

      Instead, the procedure below required her full attention.

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