The Specimen 23 trilogy · Book 1
Specimen 23: Control
Two strangers. One impossible resemblance.
Reads as a standalone — no prior series reading required.
Boston detective Allen Fletcher and recent college graduate Brian Maynard have never met, but a chance encounter draws them into a mystery neither family can explain. As they dig deeper, they uncover records and questions that suggest their connection is anything but accidental.
Allen Fletcher is a Boston detective who trusts evidence. Brian Maynard is a recent college graduate trying to decide what comes next. They live on opposite sides of the country and have no reason to know each other.
Then an obstacle-course competition puts them on the same trail.
What begins as an unsettling coincidence leads to questions neither family can answer—and to records that were never meant to matter again.
The deeper Allen and Brian look, the harder it becomes to believe their connection is accidental.
And whatever happened began long before either of them knew there was a mystery to solve.
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A Specimen 23 prequel novella
Specimen 23: Archive
Six days before a name disappears, an old DNA result changes everything.
Christine Avery is helping turn decades of medical research into a modern archive when a genetic result from 1998 raises a terrifying possibility: the person behind it may be living with an inherited heart condition capable of causing sudden cardiac arrest.
There is one problem.
In six days, the protected link between the research record and the person behind it is scheduled to be destroyed.
Then Christine discovers records that were never supposed to fit into the archive at all.
Archive is a short prequel novella — a one-sitting read that opens the full-length Specimen 23 trilogy.