The Continuity Children

In 2038, the Continuity Initiative promises frightened parents a safer future: healthier children, calmer schools, and citizens prepared for a world of climate disasters and political violence. But biomedical engineer Mara Venn knows the program’s success is built on a monstrous secret. Her daughter, Lio, has been taken—and the girl returned to her home is a genetically replicated civic model, engineered for obedience and carrying fragments of the original child’s biological memories. Desperate to find the truth, Mara joins Elias Cole, a disgraced investigative reporter whose last exposé was erased from every public archive. Together they follow a supply chain running from state clinics to private hospitals, detention centers, and elite blood banks. Every discovery brings them closer to the children being harvested—and to proof that could collapse the government. Yet the replicas are not empty copies. They love, fear, remember, and believe they belong to the families they replaced. As authorities begin deleting identities and rewriting records, Mara and Elias must decide whether liberation means exposing the program, protecting the replicas, or finding a third way before an entire generation disappears.