The Helix Paradox

In a dystopian future, humanity’s survival hinges on the Helix Project, a genetic experiment to create cognitively enhanced individuals capable of solving existential crises. Dr. Kael Renar, a brilliant but tormented geneticist, leads the project, haunted by his past failures. As the first generation of enhanced humans, known as the Ascendants, begins to exhibit extraordinary abilities, they also display unsettling psychological anomalies. Kael must navigate a web of corporate espionage, ethical dilemmas, and his own fractured psyche to uncover a conspiracy that threatens to unravel the very fabric of human evolution.