ENCODED MINDS: A Biological Thriller

Olivia Scott has spent years suppressing a disturbing ability: in certain places, she can glimpse fragments of intensely emotional events that happened there.

When her brother is arrested for murder, Liv is forced to confront the gift she buried—and the possibility that what she sees has a biological explanation.

Two scientists have made an impossible discovery. Bacteria can record traces of human experience and transmit them directly into the brain.

As an altered strain spreads, its victims begin sharing more than memories. Individual thought gives way to a growing collective consciousness, and the infected become part of a new intelligence known as the Collective.

Liv is one of the few people able to perceive the change. Drawn into the search for the bacteria’s source, she must help scientists understand an enemy that already lives inside every human body. But as governments turn to military solutions and the Collective expands, the boundary between infection and evolution begins to blur.

Because the greatest danger is not simply dying.

It is surviving without a self.

Encoded Minds is a high-concept biological thriller about contagious memory, collective consciousness, and the struggle to preserve individual identity—from the award-winning author of Parallels.