Gene Defense

About the Book

This fast-paced genetic thriller with a strong political undertow begins with a phone call plea for help to Boston-based attorney Paeton Weaver by her sister, Casey Bell, after the discovery of her philanthropist husband’s bloodied body, supposedly, by his own hand. Local Florida authorities are suspicious about the circumstances of Leonard L. Bell’s death. His death comes in the year 2013, post the U.S. presidential inauguration. Paeton Weaver takes the reader on a disturbing journey to examine the social, psychological and legal ramifi cations of genetic social engineering when under new US leadership, citizens become valued based on genetic characteristics. Paeton discovers a dark Weaver family history through a series of nightmares. Secrets kept hidden over two hundred years reveal ghastly murders. She ponders her own genetic fate. In 2013, the American way of life, from our health care provisions, justice system, medical outcomes, jobs, friends, family, water, food supply and our very own fate, depends upon our DNA. No one can hide from their genetic history. What defense do we have against our genes?

About the Author

Joy Ashe (pseudonym) has had a life-long dream to write fi ction novels, captivated in her pubescent days by Nancy Drew novels. These mysteries became a diversion during Sunday morning church services. With her undergraduate and post-graduate work in Psychology and a twenty-eight year career in technological sales and marketing management, human behavior analysis has pushed her from that vocational path to delve into the fi ctional world. Characters parade in her mind prepared to dive into future novels. An amateur genealogist having inherited over four hundred years of family genealogical records from her father, she has a strong interest in genetic infl uence over human behavior. She has spent days-at-a-time studying old chancery records, sloshing through red-clay soaked cemeteries and traveling to remote locations in search of her roots. In the course of those journeys she has made many new acquaintances, found shocking stories of times past and been inspired to bring human foibles to life.