Lacey McHenry is on her way to the big-time in the field of genetics research. Newly hired as an assistant in the world-renowned and incredibly well funded Kendell-Jakes Longevity Institute, her new chance at life is just waiting to unfold before her. Working in the ‘frog room’ at the lowest position in the Kendell-Jakes totem pole does seem to lack a certain degree of panache though, and as it soon becomes clear – involves a great deal of danger as well. When a late night intruder barges into the high security facilities, Lacey is swept away and becomes the victim of a cover-up that casts her as delusional.
Doubting her own sanity, she turns to Cameron Reinhardt, the absent-minded genius master geneticist who stumbled onto the scene of the disastrous intrusion moments after it took place. Warned to steer clear of Lacey and to help the institute cover its tracks, Reinhardt’s Christian principles draw him towards a compassionate and haltingly honest relationship with Lacey, whom he soon longs to protect from the dangerous maelstrom forming within the institute.
All this seems normal enough for a Christian suspense novel, but things are not as simple as they seem in Karen Hancock’s Enclave. Alternating with Hancock’s descriptions of Lacey’s struggles to discover the truth about what happened that night are flashes to a world entirely unlike her own. A totalitarian, cultish, post-apocalyptic community called “New Eden,” where free thought and rebellion are punishable by death appear throughout the novel. Now I’m enthralled. Give me a good dose of people hiding underground on a poisoned earth and I’m in. Better yet, God is at work amongst these imprisoned souls – leading them towards the truth, light, and freedom that are only available in Him.
And to mix things up even more, Dr. Reinhardt has a mysterious past, a past that includes military involvement in a secret mission gone wrong. It’s those deeply hidden memories that make him so vital, both to his current employer and to a secret agency actively seeking to unravel the accusations of questionable genetic tinkering that swirl around its directors.
Article comments