They told her she was helping humanity.
They didn’t tell her what was growing inside her.

In the underground corridors of a classified Canadian military facility, a young woman stumbles through alarms and shadows, her body overtaken by pain — and something else. Something engineered. Designed. A child that isn’t supposed to exist in the outside world.

He was never meant to be born free.

C-002-05, known only by his designation, is one of the first fully-grown results of Project Chimera — a black-budget genetic soldier program created to protect Earth’s crumbling future. Raised in isolation, trained like an animal, wired for obedience, he was never given a name.

Until the others gave him one. In secret. A fragile act of rebellion.

Now, years later, that child is a weapon — faster, smarter, stronger than any human alive. And on his first live deployment to the Moon, when orders demand the unthinkable, he hesitates.

That hesitation changes everything.

Chimera is a brutal, character-driven sci-fi thriller about control, identity, and what it means to choose who you are — even when everything in you was built to obey.

This novel is under development during the Novel November challenge.