Gene Defense: A Fictional Genetic Thriller sweeps readers forward to the
year 2013, a time when the whole American way of life-from health care provisions, justice system, medical outcomes, jobs, friends, family, and water and food supply to one's very own fate-depends upon one's DNA and no one can hide from his or her genetic history. Here, Boston attorney Paeton Weaver examines the social, psychological, and legal ramifications of genetic social engineering when under new U.S. leadership, the citizens become valued based on individual genetic characteristics. The apparent suicidal death of her brother-in-law takes her deeper into this study. Along the way, she discovers the dark Weaver family history through a series of nightmares. Secrets kept hidden over two hundred years reveal ghastly murders, leading her to ponder her own genetic fate. Her fear becomes intense when she hears from her long-lost cousin, who willingly risks his own life to save the country from a power-hungry president and obedient bureaucrats. Could genes really lead one to do crimes and take lives?

Joy Ashe is donating 10% of the proceeds of all direct book sales to the
American Alzheimers Association and the National Parkinson's Foundation.