Eve has no idea she’s the oldest soul on earth, with a pre-wired connection to every other soul on the planet. The boy she’s mysteriously drawn to, named Roman, has been her soul mate, her love of nearly three hundred lifetimes—until he tells her.

But what Roman doesn’t mention is that the new genetic test called Animus will soon expose what she is to the whole world, and that he’s being tasked with the impossible; steering her into the open arms of another, a boy named Jude. She’ll learn that Jude’s the only brand new soul on earth; the one who’s come to change the world, and that the future of humanity rests in their intertwined destiny.

Who knew that mapping the genome would lead to carbon dating the soul? With scientists on the brink of decoding our DNA to determine the number of lifetimes a soul has lived, Eve meets a spellbinding boy named Jude, and finds herself fatefully drawn to both him and Roman, her apparent love of lifetimes. But how will she choose between her soul mate and her fate? With no idea that her choice will alter the course of history, paving the way for a world war of old souls versus new.

When Davy Hamilton's tests come back positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome (HTS)—aka the kill gene—she loses everything.

Her boyfriend ditches her, her parents are scared of her, and she can forget about her bright future at Juilliard. Davy doesn't feel any different, but genes don't lie. One day she will kill someone.

Only Sean, a fellow HTS carrier, can relate to her new life. Davy wants to trust him; maybe he's not as dangerous as he seems. Or maybe Davy is just as deadly.

When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?

Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who has stolen Anna’s heart.

When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.

Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.

From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.

In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist's Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.

There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking. They can even allow some people, because of the exceptional flexibility of their thumbs and fingers, to become truly singular violinists.

Kean's vibrant storytelling once again makes science entertaining, explaining human history and whimsy while showing how DNA will influence our species' future.

Narrowly surviving their encounter with Erasers in New York City, the flock is following up a lead on their pasts in Washington, D.C. But what they find waiting for them is...a home?!

How will the flock adjust to a real school - one that doesn't involve mad scientists and genetic freaks?

Molecular biologist Kaye Lang has a chilling theory: ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can return to life. This theory becomes a terrifying reality when a "virus-hunter" tracks down a flu-like disease that kills expectant mothers and their offspring. As the outbreak threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Lang and Dicken must race against time to assemble the pieces of an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race.

Will there be a future at all?

The Seven Daughters of Eve unveils one of the most thrilling stories of genetic discovery since The Double Helix. In 1994, Professor Bryan Sykes, a leading authority on DNA and human evolution, was tasked with examining the frozen remains of a man trapped in glacial ice in northern Italy. This man, known as the Ice Man, was over five thousand years old.

Sykes's groundbreaking work led to the identification of a genetic descendant of the Ice Man living in Great Britain today. How was this possible? Through meticulous research into a remarkable gene that passes undiluted from generation to generation through the maternal line.

By examining thousands of DNA sequences worldwide, Sykes identified that within Europeans and North American Caucasians, there are only seven distinct genetic groups. These groups trace back to seven women, the "Seven Daughters of Eve"—Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, and Jasmine.

Sykes maps the migratory patterns of millions of their descendants and paints vivid portraits of their ancient worlds. His stories range from identifying the remains of Tsar Nicholas and Tsarina Alexandra using DNA samples from living relatives, to tracking the ancestry of a Caribbean woman whose family was sold into slavery back to central Africa.

Ultimately, Sykes's investigation reveals that our commonalities as humans are deeply embedded in our DNA, transcending the differences that separate us.