The Arcadian Strain[DRAFT]

[THIS IS A DRAFT]Dr. Maren Vosse is a fugitive toxicologist hunted by the Lycaon Group, the ruthless pharmaceutical cartel that murdered her brother. Kael is the cartel's most lethal enforcer, but his body is being destroyed by their darkest secret: the Arcadian Strain, a weaponized werewolf pathogen. Sent to eliminate Maren, Kael's survival instead becomes entirely dependent on an untested counter-drug that only she can synthesize. Forced into a twisted game of mutual blackmail—she needs his physical protection to stay alive, and he needs her drugs to stay human—they must survive corporate hit squads and the dangerous, intoxicating proximity of being locked in a safehouse together.[THIS IS A DRAFT]