Hybrid. Hybrid, #1

A Gripping Sci-Fi Thriller of Shadow Government Experiments and Human ResilienceForty children went missing. What returned from the shadows was no longer entirely human. Ten years ago, a nightmare swept through the nation as forty innocent children were abducted from their beds. Locked away in a black-budget, subterranean laboratory, they became the helpless test subjects of Dr. Scott Kennedy-a brilliant, sadistic scientist working under a shadowy government contract.
Through brutal surgeries and horrific genetic engineering, their flesh was stripped away and fused with mechanical implants, microchips, and cold surgical steel. They were built to be the ultimate military weapons. But weapons can turn on their creators. Against impossible odds, Richard, Tyson, Jeff, Jeremy, and the surviving children orchestrate a daring, chaotic escape into a world they no longer recognize.
Reunited with their families, the true horror begins to unfold. The modifications are irreversible. They possess terrifying, enhanced strength, they can no longer eat human food, and they bear deep psychological scars from a decade in captivity. As the survivors try to piece together their shattered lives and stick together across the country, a dark reality looms over them. The government spent billions creating them-and the shadowy forces who engineered the Hybrid project are not about to let their most valuable weapons just walk away.