With the right DNA, you could be free from disease, free from ageing.
You could even, perhaps, live forever.
Like her father before her, Paola Santini has the right DNA.
Centuries-old Renaissance artist John Andrews is in a state of shock. Just weeks after meeting his daughter, Paola, for the first time — almost 500 years after she was born in Naples — she is abducted and DNA evidence shows that the culprit is Jacques Bognard, John’s seafaring friend from 17th century Marseille.
When the body of a brutally murdered, unidentified woman is discovered in Paola’s Cape Cod house and Paola’s own identity is found to be false, the police are baffled. And the deeper they dig, the more mysterious the case becomes.
In the gripping third book in the Rare Traits Trilogy, John Andrews finds himself in a desperate search for his daughter that leads him from the US to the UK and then to the area of Tuscany he knew as a young man in the 15th century.
Meanwhile, in the frustration of her captivity, Paola faces her demons …
