Genetically enhanced workers are the future of companies competing in the global marketplace. People need to be more intelligent, more capable . even more. Genetic perfection has a price: a brutal Darwinian contest of strength and cunning to determine which bloodlines will continue, and dominate. When Sarah Wheeler’s Spawning Competition can be rigged, her breeding and training will be put to the best test-by an adversary who knows her every flaw and weakness, by a dad whose dynastic ambitions understand no bounds, and by a world that’s ruthlessly selecting against human agency itself.