Blood Born

Overview: When a rapist stalks the nation's capital, Detective Christina Randall tries to keep an astounding clue from going public: all the victims become pregnant. When a rapist stalks the nation's capital, Detective Christina Randall tries to keep an astounding clue from going all the victims become pregnant. The latest victim is teenager Daniella Connolly. Her mother, Margaret, is a doctor at CalPark Fertility Clinic. But Margaret can't fathom the bizarre conceptions, either. Isolated in a special hospital ward, they all come to term in just one week. Randall learns the rapes are connected to a series of missing-person cases. When a young woman disappears near CalPark also home to a secretive research lab suspicion falls on Margaret. But soon, the rapist returns to claim his progeny. He is not really a he but an "it." Worse, the children have appetites just like papa's. From the author of The Organ Donor and Eyes Everywhere comes a new type of monster, one that could spell an end to our species.