Near the end of the 21st century, a contagion called the Chimera Complex is devastating the world. It produces painful, irreversible mutations that mimic the biology of animals, and no patient who contracts it survives long. You have just earned your graduate degree and are fielding multiple job offers when a mysterious winged figure crashes into the café where you are meeting an old friend and upends everything. Three very different men are now counting on you. Somewhere behind the chaos is a global conspiracy — and the possibility, if you are willing to pursue it, of healing more than just a crisis.