4-the-echo-protocol.docx

In the near future, human cloning is no longer science fiction—it's a tightly controlled government secret. When Dr. Anika Rourke, a brilliant but disillusioned geneticist, is pulled back into the Echo Protocol—a covert initiative to create and train clones for high-risk missions—she discovers that one of her own unauthorized creations has escaped. Hunted by her former employers and haunted by the clone’s eerie messages, Anika must face the terrifying consequences of playing god. As she unravels a conspiracy buried beneath layers of DNA and deception, she realizes the clone may not be the greatest threat—the truth behind its creation is.