The Fourth Nail

THE FOURTH NAIL

The Shroud of Turin was cloth and legend. It wasn't supposed to hold a genome.

When geneticist Elena Vance confirms the impossible, the men funding her don't stop at just the analysis - they clone it. A child is born, hidden, and raised behind laboratory walls, studied like a hypothesis, watched for the day his gifts reveal what he may or may not be.

When the truth finally breaks, the world can't agree on what to do with it. A corporation wants its asset back. A priest wants to understand him before anyone else decides for God. A zealot wants him dead, convinced a second Crucifixion is the only answer to a second Incarnation.

Samuel never asked to be a miracle, a heresy, or a weapon. He asked to be human - and that may be the one thing no one around him will let him be.

Faith split the world once already. Written into his DNA is the reason it's about to happen again.

Framed by the permanent, unsolved mystery of a single genetic anomaly-the "fourth nail" in Samuel's DNA-this novel is a mesmerizing exploration of what happens when humanity forces a miracle into a microscope, and the miracle simply decides to be human.