Former research scientist, Corrin Rawley, is faced with a dilemma when her daughter, Emma, develops a sudden incurable illness, and the treatment involves the people she used to experiment on. Can the ethics lecturer face her unethical past?
Corrin knows she different, she’s known it all her life. She can taste other people’s emotions and influence them through the production of of her own manipulative pheromones. She is an atavist. Ancestral animal DNA runs through her genome and she’s not alone.
But public fear is rife of the existence of atavists, are they human or animal? Debates rage over whether to tolerate or exclude them from many parts of society, including the university where Corrin is desperate to belong.
Having abandoned atavist research in favour of lecturing in bioethics, Corrin faces a harsh winter when Emma falls ill and her only friend is brutally murdered. When the suspected murderer’s own ancestral ability is Emma’s best chance of a cure, Corrin must confront her own atavist identity and face her unethical past. Will she stand against society’s fears and do the right thing for her daughter and her kind, even if it’s morally wrong?
InHumane is a near-future speculative thriller that examines our own responsibilities and the role in the world we create and what we owe to one another all wrapped up in a page-turner where the killer could be anyone. Even someone Corrin knows…