Open Wound: First Book in The Last Immunity

She was never meant to survive.

When Ray Danner finds a young woman discarded behind the walls of an elite medical facility, he does the one thing the system around her never expected: he treats her like a human being.

Mara has spent her life as something curated, monitored, and preserved rather than loved. The world outside is too large, too loud, too alive - but inside Ray’s quiet house, she begins to discover the dangerous strangeness of ordinary things: choice, weather, hunger, privacy, kindness.

But the institution she escaped was not built to lose what it considers valuable.

As whispers of a larger medical crisis begin to spread, Ray’s son Evan uncovers evidence that Mara is more than a victim of hidden cruelty. What was done to her may reach far beyond one sealed facility, one stolen life, or one buried secret.

And the people who made her what she is, want her back.