When Adam Barfield went on a quiet sabbatical in the Italian Alps, the last thing he expected to find was a cursed secret that would change the world forever... Adam Barfield was an aloof neuroscientist teaching at U.C. Berkeley, California. Friendless, childless, he was known only for the clinical detachment lent both by his profession and progressive Asperger's. So no one could believe their eyes when nine months after a quiet Italian sabbatical, the secretive Dr. Barfield returned home with a baby boy. Adam abruptly unveiled groundbreaking research, patenting a miraculous immune serum that revolutionized modern medicine itself. The scientific community was at his fingertips, yet marveled at Adam's refusal to reveal the source of these godsend cures. Presidents and World Health Organizations alike worked night and day to unravel the mystery, hoping to produce worldwide applications of his miracle cure. However, even in the bright glare of the limelight, Dr. Barfield knew what he had done. And he knew well the inevitable curse waiting for him...