Cutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner; students and close friends; spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive; highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples; while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance; they remain undeterred. The procedures seem to go smoothly; but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more. Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy; Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases; they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research; immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk.