Alex and Leslie Twisden have a perfect marriage complete
with deep love for each other, significant careers,
boundless wealth, a beautiful Manhattan mansion full of
priceless antiques; the only thing missing is children.
After endless procedures to conceive with no results, they
are desperate to try anything. When they hear about the
mysterious Dr. Kis, a successful fertility specialist in
remote Slovenia, they decide he will be their last attempt.
Injected with painful shots containing tissue extracts from
several animal species, almost immediately Leslie becomes
pregnant. But it's not a normal pregnancy and her food
cravings are atrocious. Leslie delivers twins, Alice and
Adam, and she and Alex are ecstatic. Finally, their lives
are complete. Now if Alex and Leslie can just adjust to the
horrific side effects they are both experiencing -- and that
continue to escalate.
Ten years later, Alice and Adam are attractive, intelligent
and loving children who attend private school by day -- but
are locked in their rooms each and every night. Alex and
Leslie do not want the twins to know what goes on in the
house after dark, and keeping the twins imprisoned is the
only way to protect them from the evil that's taken over
their parents.
Terrified of their parents and what they hear going on each
night in their home, Alice and Adam escape to the streets
of Manhattan, where they are befriended by a pack of kids
with similar backgrounds to their own. Alex and Leslie are
in full hunter mode as they desperately attempt to locate
their children.
Is there any possible way they can rectify the terrible
situation they find themselves in and become a family
again? When Leslie sees an interview of Dr. Kis on the
Internet, he hints that he's been working on a way to
reverse his fertility procedure for those with adverse side
effects. To save all her life, Leslie is determined to find
Dr. Kis, but is it too late? We never find out, since
that's where the book ends. Let's hope the promised sequel
is in the works, since there are a lot of unanswered
questions.
Chase Novak (a pseudonym of Scott Spencer) has
written a gruesomely gory and unsettling medical horror
story with BREED. The mystery is riveting, while the
novel's horrific perils of fertility treatments (and the
outcomes!) are truly scary. I suggest you have a strong
stomach to read some of the narrative concerning the eating
habits of the characters. That said, I could not put the
book down and really want to read the sequel for answers to
those dangling plot threads.
Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives - fabulous jobs,
a luxurious town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a
passionate marriage. What they don't have is a child, and
as they try one infertility treatment after the next,
yearning turns into obsession. As a last-ditch attempt to
make their dream of parenthood come true, Alex and Leslie
travel deep into Slovenia, where they submit to a painful
and terrifying procedure that finally gives them what they
so fervently desire . . . but with awful consequences.
Ten years later, cosseted and adored but living in a house
of secrets, the twins Adam and Alice find themselves
locked into their rooms every night, with sounds coming
from their parents' bedroom getting progressively louder,
more violent, and more disturbing.
Driven to a desperate search for answers, Adam and Alice
set out on a quest to learn the true nature of the man and
woman who raised them. Their discovery will upend
everything they thought they knew about their parents and
will reveal a threat so horrible that it must be escaped,
at any cost.
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