Prima

Prima's life growing up on the coast of Southern California is nearly perfect until her twentieth birthday when her father attempts a murder-suicide of their family. She is the only survivor. His act is even more incomprehensible because, until that moment, he was always a committed and loving father. As Prima uncovers his past, she learns that for years he'd secretly been sending monthly checks to a woman, Maria. She initially suspects he was having an affair with her, but she finds out that Maria was a surrogate mother in a genetic research program at her father's university where he was a reproductive endocrinologist. The experiment involved inserting non-human, primate DNA into human embryos. All were believed to be a failure. However, one baby survived and was hidden by her father who was paying Maria to keep the birth a secret. Though Maria does not know the whereabouts of the child, she sells the story to the tabloids.When the news breaks, the university is desperate to find proof of their success and do further research on what they consider to be a laboratory specimen, property of the school. At the same time, the news sparks religious groups who are offended by the polluting of God's creation. They consider it a non-human blasphemy and begin protesting at the university. At the center of the conflict is the search for the missing specimen, and Prima suspects that she is it.

About the Author :
John Pulver is a Southern California-based writer whose fiction has appeared in various publications. The Hollywood Bodies and Killswitch novels, under the J.R. Waterbear pseudonym, are coauthored by him. He is a member of The Natural Muse, a group that connects authors with the joy and inspiration of writing in nature. When not reading or writing, he's often swimming, hiking or playing chess. A note from JP: Thank you for reading Prima. Please consider posting a review, something as simple as "I liked the book" or even a star rating without comments. They help bring readers to the story and are appreciated. J.R. Waterbear books: Hollywood Bodies A rock 'n' roll mystery set in the Hollywood scene of sleaze, delusion, and bad-hair bands of 1987. A Halloween of tricks, treats and a killer clown. Glenda Birdsong, onetime rock star brought low by drugs and bad dieting advice, is working on her comeback album - until, that is, her sleazy manager steals her best song and winds up dead. Suddenly, bodies are piling up, and all the evidence points to Glenda. She'll need all her wits and legendary stubbornness to survive and find the killer. Welcome to the jungle, Glenda. Killswitch On post-apocalyptic Earth, Mavo is an Outsider whose dream is simply to join Unity, the computer-guided society that saved humanity after devastating wars and environmental destruction. Instead, he and fierce rebel Rin are framed for a massacre. Now the couple must flee from Unity troops and vicious terrorists as they prepare to battle a hidden monster that wants to rule and warp humanity.