Young AJ Pierce has a bright future. Hyde has other plans.
What if the darkest impulse you ever had—the one you crushed in an instant—had a body and a life of its own?
AJ Pierce is a handsome, popular junior at an elite Los Angeles high school. Good grades. Good friends. Good life. Then the past catches up with him in the form of a father he barely knew.
Henry Jekyll was a brilliant geneticist on the verge of a breakthrough—using viruses to carry new DNA into the human body, hunting for a genetic cure for cancer. But viruses mutate. The genetic pattern mutated with them. What began as a quest to save lives split Dr. Jekyll in two, and ultimately destroyed him. Now, through a twist of fate, AJ has been infected with his father’s creation. And what destroyed Henry Jekyll is starting to happen to his son.
Hyde is born.
Hyde is everything AJ is not. Monstrous. Powerful. Utterly without conscience. Where AJ hesitates, Hyde acts. Where AJ recoils, Hyde revels. Every dark thought a teenage boy suppresses in a millisecond, Hyde unleashes instantly. Nothing is suppressed. He does it. All of it. And he leaves horror in his wake.
How does a powerless high school kid survive when his other half has no limits? How does he save himself before the transitions become permanent, before AJ Pierce disappears forever, and only Hyde remains? Can he, or is it already too late?
HYDE is a modern reimagining of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, transplanted into the world of privileged Los Angeles teenagers, where appearances are everything, and Hyde is about to destroy all of it and so much more.
