They Call It the Wild Garden. Samarqand.

A planet where evolution has run riot, producing compounds that can heal, exhilarate, or kill. Four powerful pharmaceutical giants – Novorganics, Cosmonomics, Helicoverse, and IndAxioma – vie for control, locked in a cold war of bioprospecting and corporate espionage under the guise of research. Fortunes hang in the balance, harvested from exotic vines and elusive flora scattered across continents untouched by major colonization. But the true prize, and the greatest danger, lies hidden deeper than any corporation suspects.

Siobhan Hu Tang, a fugitive pilot hiding under the alias Maeve Chen, just wants a quiet job flying transports. Lance Paparelli, a con artist with a doctorate in chemistry he’d rather forget, seeks one last score. Brynn Winterborn, a native guide wise beyond her years, hunts the mercenaries who destroyed her life. Drawn together by circumstance and desperation, they stumble upon evidence of a fifth column operating in the shadows – the fanatical militants of Roma Secundus.

Their secret base, Station Silvanus, is a laboratory of horrors, developing biologically augmented soldiers and pursuing forbidden science. As Siobhan, Lance, and Brynn dig deeper, they become targets, hunted by augmented supersoldiers and betrayed by corporate insiders like the ambitious Augustus Vandermeer. Can they unravel the conspiracy, expose the terrifying