The Verick Protocol Series (Book 2: Topgun: Ice)

Her investigation leads to Black Ice, a secret facility where the line between scientific research and human experimentation has almost completely disappeared. Hidden records reveal the existence of the Cadmus Project, a classified program designed to create enhanced soldiers capable of confronting threats beyond ordinary human limits.

What Mia finds inside is worse than anything she expected.

Experiments have been performed on soldiers, teenagers, embryos, and genetically modified subjects. Among the survivors is Charlie, a living consequence of a program that should never have existed.

As Mia and Abigail dig deeper, another revelation changes everything: Abigail is not merely an ally connected to Emery's past. She is Mia's biological mother.

Now Mia must confront a terrifying possibility. Her extraordinary abilities may not be an accident—and her father's secret past may be directly connected to the creation of the woman she has become.

The deeper Mia goes into Black Ice, the harder it becomes to tell who is protecting humanity…and who is preparing to control it.