The forbidden fruit

Short Description: Title: The Forbidden Fruit (A Harvest Against Death) When his wife dies from a poisoned health supplement in the summer of 2000, Bishop Landry begins a desperate, obsessive mission: to find and combine the world's rarest, most life-giving plants into something that can defeat death itself. What starts as a grieving father's backyard experiment in Katy, Texas, quickly becomes something far stranger — a glowing, rapidly growing vine that produces fruit capable of halting aging, healing the body, and forging an almost telepathic bond with those who taste it. As Bishop and his young daughter May secretly share the fruit with a small circle of neighbors and family, its power draws the attention of biotech corporations, government agencies, and shadowy operatives who see it not as a miracle, but as a strategic resource to be controlled, patented, or weaponized. What follows is a decades-long story of love, secrecy, flight, and quiet defiance: a single family protecting a living promise against a world determined to own it. Spanning from the year 2000 into the deep future of 3000 CE, The Forbidden Fruit is a haunting, emotionally grounded tale of grief turned into stubborn hope — about a father who refuses to let time take the people he loves, a daughter who must decide how much immortality she is willing to carry, and a mysterious plant that answers only to those who ask with open hands instead of closed fists. A slow-burn family saga wrapped in speculative botanical horror, wonder, and moral ambiguity.