Sharkman

Kwan Wilson was a basketball star at his high school in San Diego until one fateful morning. Texting while driving, the sixteen-year-old hit a tree, killing his mother, who was in the passenger seat. When Kwan awoke, he was paralyzed from the waist down. His father, Admiral Douglas Wilson, sends him off to live with his maternal grandmother in South Florida. Depressed and feeling isolated, Kwan is befriended by his new principal, who tells him about an internship at a genetics lab in Miami working with shark stem cells that are being tested on rats to cure cancer and spinal injuries. Kwan passes . . . until he learns the beautiful Anya Patel is an intern at the lab. The good news is that the stem cells are curing their rat subjects; the bad news—it alters their DNA before killing them. When a promising breakthrough is made, Kwan decides to risk his life and inject himself with the experimental elixir of stem cells—thereby altering his destiny and the lives of millions in the process.

A native of Philadelphia, New York Times and best-selling international author Steve Alten earned his Bachelor’s degree from Penn State University, his Masters from the University of Delaware, and his Doctorate from Temple University. He is the author of the MEG series, the Domain series, Goliath, The Loch, The Shell Game, and The Omega Project. Steve Alten is also founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a free nationwide teen reading program that is now being used in thousands of secondary school classrooms across the country to excite reluctant readers to read. For more information, go to www.AdoptAnAuthor.com and www.SteveAlten.com.