The Missing Piece (The Jigsaw Files)
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He couldn’t begin to imagine the scope and organization it had taken to make all this happen. He was seriously scared. Were there other countries beside China? Was there a consortium that had bonded to take them down?
The first day ended without a solution. The next day was a nightmare of trying to contact all their locations. The night of the second day passed, and Cyrus was on the third day of personal hell learning how many millions of dollars in experiments and resources they were losing by the hour, when his cell phone signaled a text message. He was so excited it was working again that he didn’t even bother to see who it was from. He immediately opened it.
The last three days were just a warning. Leave me the fuck alone, or I will destroy you and everything you own.
Before he could react, the message disappeared, but his phone was still working. He ran into his office. The computers were on. He knew the message was from Jade—but she couldn’t have done anything of this scope. She’d never shown herself capable of anything like this. It was impossible! She didn’t have the—
And then it hit him. What if she’d been hiding what she could do? She’d been angry when she discovered some details about her life that they’d kept hidden. When she developed breast cancer and went from stage two to stage four within six weeks, she should have died. But she didn’t. And there were all those drug cocktails and the chemo the doctors had given her. They already suspected it was the DNA they’d manipulated within her that helped her heal.
But what the hell else had it changed?
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ISBN-13: 9781488035081
The Missing Piece
Copyright © 2019 by Sharon Sala
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Table of Contents
Back Cover Text
Praise
Booklist
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
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