This Cruel Design

Where can you hide if you're running from yourself? 
 
In bunkers and strongholds across the world, people are celebrating. There's a vaccine to the virus that has ravaged the planet for years. 
 
But the celebrations won't last for long. 
 
The vaccine isn't working. The virus is evolving. Catarina - genehacker, reluctant warrior - must find the one person who can help her. A man who is guilty of unimaginable crimes. 
 
Time is ticking, she only has three days before shadowy gentech corporation Cartaxus will use lethal code to wipe out every person on the planet's surface. 
 
Kill the hosts, kill the virus. 
 
Forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts, Cat discovers that the biggest threat of all may be buried in her own mind. 
 
The end of the world is approaching. Can she stop it? 
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'With a backdrop of amazing science and technology, This Mortal Coil is a smart, page-turning thriller that gave me chills. I couldn't put this book down.' - Laini Taylor, bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. 
 
'I can't remember the last time I was so hooked by a book. Relentlessly paced, expertly plotted, and with a romance as tense and as captivating as her wicked twists, Emily Suvada has crafted an unputdownable story. I loved every terrifying page.' - Stephanie Garber, bestselling author of Caraval. 
 
'This Mortal Coil redefines "unputdownable." A thrilling, exhilarating read that's crackling with intelligence. Compelling characters and and incredible twists come together perfectly - I loved this book.' - Amie Kaufman, bestselling author of Illuminae.

Emily Suvada was born in Australia, where she went on to study mathematics and astrophysics. Her interest in science and tech never waned, particularly in genetic engineering and the question of what it means to be human. Emily's deepest passion has always been books, and though she always loved to write, she didn't truly find her voice until she combined this passion with her love of science. This Mortal Coil is Emily's first novel, and was crafted as the kind of book she loves most - fast-paced action with a healthy dose of futuristic technology and a horrifying virus. She now lives in the USA, in Portland, Oregon, with her husband. When not writing, she can be found hiking, cycling, and conducting chemistry experiments in her kitchen.

'I can't remember the last time I was so hooked by a book. Relentlessly paced, expertly plotted, and with a romance as tense and as captivating as her wicked twists, Emily Suvada has crafted an unputdownable story. I loved every terrifying page.' - Stephanie Garber, bestselling author of Caraval. 
 
Catarina thought they'd stopped the Hydra virus. She was wrong. 
 
After laying everything on the line to decrypt the vaccine, Cat realises that Lachlan's daemon code is in the panel of every person on the planet. With it, he can reprogram humanity. 
 
She, Cole and Leoben set out to stop him, but they're on a timer. Cartaxus - the shadowy corporation that's both helped and hindered them - has a deadly end game in play. The virus is evolving, the vaccine is dying, and if Cat can't find Lachlan in three days, they'll use lethal code to wipe out everyone. 
 
Their path takes them to Entropia, an underground city deep in the desert and home to the most extreme gene hackers, run by the queen of coding, Regina. 
 
Struggling with the revelations about her past, and plagued by strange visions, what Cat finds in Entropia is more than just a trail to Lachlan. Because in the vaulted chambers of Regina's kingdom, Cat is forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts, and discovers that the biggest threat of all may be buried in her own mind. 
 
'This Mortal Coil redefines "unputdownable." A thrilling, exhilarating read that's crackling with intelligence. Compelling characters and and incredible twists come together perfectly - I loved this book.' - Amie Kaufman, bestselling author of Illuminae.

A Mortal Coil Short Story

These Precious Scars

A free YA short story - what would you pay for the chance to escape? 
 
Jun Bei, Cole, Anna, Leoben, Ziana. Five children with extraordinary potential. 
 
They don't get many visitors at the remote laboratory where they live under the eye of legendary geneticist, Lachlan Agatta. The man and woman who arrive are nothing like the others. 
 
They're from Cartaxus and offer the children something rare and unfathomable: escape. 
 
But freedom means different things to the five children. For one of them, getting want they want may mean betraying everyone else.

Jun Bei, Cole, Anna, Leoben, Ziana. Five children with extraordinary potential. 
 
They don't get many visitors at the remote laboratory where they live under the eye of legendary geneticist, Lachlan Agatta. The man and woman who arrive are nothing like the others. 
 
They're from Cartaxus and offer the children something rare and unfathomable: escape. 
 
But freedom means different things to the five children. For one of them, getting want they want may mean betraying everyone else.

This Mortal Coil

*Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018* 
 
A must read for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. 
 
3 billion lives at stake. 2 people who can save them. 1 secret hidden in their DNA. 
 
A breathtaking debut series about one girl's quest for answers in a genetically and technologically advanced future. 
 
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When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. 
 
Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. 
 
Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine. 
 
Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself at risk from Cartaxus, a shadowy organization with a stranglehold on the world's genetic tech. But it's too late to turn back. 
 
As the pieces fit together it's clear there is one final secret that Cat must unlock. A secret that will change everything. 
 
With the pace and twists of a thriller, an emotional sucker-punch, the exquisite world-building of the best fantasy, and an imagined future that sci-fi fans will love, THIS MORTAL COIL has all the ingredients to become the next phenomenon in YA thrillers. 
 
'With a backdrop of amazing science and technology, This Mortal Coil is a smart, page-turning thriller that gave me chills. I couldn't put this book down.' - Laini Taylor, bestselling author of Daughter of Smoke and Bone. 
 
'I can't remember the last time I was so hooked by a book. Relentlessly paced, expertly plotted, and with a romance as tense and as captivating as her wicked twists, Emily Suvada has crafted an unputdownable story. I loved every terrifying page.' - Stephanie Garber, bestselling author of Caraval. 
 
'This Mortal Coil redefines "unputdownable." A thrilling, exhilarating read that's crackling with intelligence. Compelling characters and and incredible twists come together perfectly - I loved this book.' - Amie Kaufman, bestselling author of Illuminae.

*Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2018* 
 
When a lone soldier, Cole, arrives with news of Lachlan Agatta's death, all hope seems lost for Catarina. Her father was the world's leading geneticist, and humanity's best hope of beating a devastating virus. Then, hidden beneath Cole's genehacked enhancements she finds a message of hope: Lachlan created a vaccine. 
 
Only she can find and decrypt it, if she can unravel the clues he left for her. The closer she gets, the more she finds herself at risk from Cartaxus, a shadowy organization with a stranglehold on the world's genetic tech. But it's too late to turn back. 
 
There are three billion lives at stake, two people who can save them, and one final secret that Cat must unlock. A secret that will change everything.

Emily Suvada

Two factions at war 
A plague that can't be stopped 
A cure that could destroy them all . . . 
 
Cat's hacking skills weren't enough to keep her from losing everything - her identity, her past, and now her freedom. 
 
Meanwhile, the person who's stolen everything from her is close to realizing a hacker's dream: the solution to humanity's problems in gene form. Or so she thinks . . . 
 
But now a new threat has emerged - a threat that could bring the world to the brink of a devastating war. 
 
Both sides will stop at nothing to seize control of humanity's future, and that the centre of this war is Cat, and a race against the clock save millions of lives . . .

Emily Suvada

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