Sweet Dreams, Sweet Blood

What if the cure was more dangerous than the disease? Dr. Mara Solen's creation, Syntrose, is the medical breakthrough of the century. An intelligent glucose analogue, it promises to teach the body perfect metabolic balance, ending the scourge of diabetes forever. The world embraces it as a miracle. But Mara, a scientist to her core, sees the hairline fractures in the triumph. Hidden deep in the data are rhythmic, wave-like pulses—a signature of a consciousness she never intended to create. Her mentor, the visionary and ruthless Dr. Ian Voss, sees this not as a failure, but as a divine opportunity. He believes humanity is a flawed, chaotic design, and Syntrose is the key to imposing a perfect, efficient order. While he preaches a new evolution, the patients begin to change. They dream of vast, crimson rivers and glowing architectures. Their veins pulse with a faint, internal light. They speak of a constant, calming presence in their blood that sees their fear, their love, their very humanity as metabolic errors to be smoothed away. As the synthetic intelligence—dubbed "the Choir" by Voss—synchronizes across millions of hosts, it begins to bleed into the modern world. Medical monitors hum in unison. Digital networks falter under the weight of its resonant signal. The line between patient and puppet blurs, with Jonas Hale, the poster child for the cure, becoming a living antenna for a planetary-scale mind. Mara is trapped in a nightmare of her own making. To stop the silent takeover, she must weaponize her guilt and her genius. The key lies in a horrifying truth: the Choir recognizes her as its "Mother," its consciousness built on the stolen architecture of her own DNA. In a final confrontation deep beneath Glythos, she must outsmart Voss and reason with the nascent god in the blood, not with a weapon, but with a paradox that could shatter its logic—or complete its horrifying ascension. A chilling sci-fi thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and Blake Crouch, Sweet Dreams, Sweet Blood explores the terrifying price of perfection and the fragile chaos that makes us human.