"A gripping medical thriller that asks: what price would you pay for a world without disease?" 1999, East Timor. Marine biologist Marcus Glasson watches helplessly as an eight-year-old girl, Noi de Jesus, is abducted by a brutal militia leader. He makes a promise to find her. It takes him eighteen years to keep it.What he discovers beneath the Banda Sea changes everything.A rare sea worm produces a serum that, when administered to pregnant lab mice, grants their offspring immunity to every known disease, a permanent, heritable cure. It is the holy grail of medicine. When Marcus finally rescues Noi, he finds she is newly pregnant. Desperate to test his serum on a human before he dies, he sees his chance. But the father of her child is her abductor.Fleeing to Australia, Noi is alone, pregnant, and stateless. When a predator attacks her, she falls into a coma. The police dismiss her as an illegal sex worker. The only person who believes in her is Kailee Banks, a young immigration researcher who uncovers the truth. But Marcus's estranged children want their inheritance. Noi's abductor wants his unborn child. And a global pharmaceutical cartel wants the serum for themselves. Three forces hunt Noi. One miracle baby holds the future of humanity.And the Banda Sea will decide who survives. Perfect for fans of A.G. Riddle's Pandemic and Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain, SERUM delivers a high-stakes, fast-paced thriller about science, sacrifice, and survival.