What choice did she really have? With the perfection of Labbitt Halsey Genomics groundbreaking XEN protocol, no conscientious parent could deny the tantalizing possibilities. At least that s what Ann Franklin s husband convinced her of at the time they chose to conceive. Her son was to be one of the children of the future, whose unprecedented genius would propel mankind into a bright, shining tomorrow. But sixteen years later, sobered by the pitiless law of unintended consequences, Ann finds herself drawn into Jeremy s horrifying world, one of nihilism and suicide, while struggling against the loss of her high-powered consulting career, her son, and possibly her own life. From the pressure-packed government-corporate culture of Washington, D.C. to the XEN underworld in the back streets of New Orleans, The Labbitt Halsey Protocol explores the depths of a mother s love in the face of genetic manipulation gone tragically awry. "