Scarlet Medicine: a Novel of the Splice Horizon Future

A patient arrives at Cleveland Medical with injuries no one can explain. Tissue dissolves and reforms. Enzyme profiles match patterns sealed after the Ember Protocol collapsed two centuries earlier. Dr. Alaric Hale documents every detail.The Bureau arrives before his notes finish syncing.Investigator Lira Quin looks for clerical fraud. Instead she finds missing blood units, blank audit fields, and a transfer request linked to no known staff member. The patient disappears. Connected records begin to alter themselves.Someone is controlling the case from inside the Bureau.As Hale, Quin, and compliance director Naomi Kessan follow the anomaly, they uncover a legacy scaffold designed to blur the boundary between healing and harm. The more they learn, the more dangerous the truth becomes.Scarlet Medicine is a near-future medical thriller where quiet details build toward a truth no one is prepared to face.