The Genesis Backup

William Ell is a mathematics professor living a quiet life-until his father, a successful IT entrepreneur, is murdered. Was his father's last project his undoing? What exactly was this project that cost him his entire fortune? Ell begins to investigate and soon becomes a target himself. Someone's trying, by any means necessary, to take away his father's only legacy: a green gemstone that contains an unknown technology. Only a mysterious woman named Allison seems to know more about it.

But the path she leads him down challenges Ell's belief in reality-or what he thought was reality, until now ...