What should have been a medical breakthrough became something closer to a god.
Project Joy dreamed of a world without disease or death. For eighty-four years, every attempt to accelerate human regeneration ended in failure. Every subject had died.
Until Subject R4G3: Thomas Evers.
When a convicted murderer awaiting execution survived the experimental treatment, the cost of success proved greater than anyone imagined. Thomas became an unintended sidestep in evolution—the result of forbidden science entwined with something beyond DNA: the Veins of Galkur, a living conduit to a world beyond this one.
As Dr. Charli Stanwick struggles to guide Thomas toward redemption, she must unite a fractured team and confront those who see him only as a weapon: the U.S. military, a clandestine cult known as Societas Arcanorum, and Leon Spicer, a man whose wealth is rivaled only by his hunger for power.
Charli must ask herself whether the line between savior and monster can ever truly be drawn, as she faces impossible choices no scientist should ever be forced to make.
R4G3 is a science fantasy thriller where biotech collides with ancient power, and the price of immortality may be the soul of humanity itself.