Confronting issues of surrogacy and medical ethics, this literary thriller revolves around a megalomaniacal tech entrepreneur and a very special – and unusual – child.

A child will be born who will change everything.

When a young woman named Talissa answers an advert to carry a child, she cannot begin to imagine the consequences. Behind the doors of the Parn Institute, a billionaire entrepreneur plans to stretch the boundaries of ethics as never before. Through a series of IVF treatments, one they hope no one ever discovers, they set in motion an experiment that is set to upend the human race as we know it.

Seth, a baby, is delivered to hopeful parents Mary and Alaric, but when his differences start to mark him out from his peers, he begins to attract unwanted attention.

emThe Seventh Son/em is an examination of what it is to be human. Sweeping between New York, London, and the Scottish Highlands, this is a story about unrequited love and unearned power. It asks the question: just because you can do something, does it mean you should?