LUPATEK: They Patented Evolution Hardcover – February 18, 2026

After a routine DNA test reveals something impossible in her genetic code, Jazmin Smith’s life begins to unravel.Her senses sharpen beyond human limits. Her instincts grow predatory. And buried deep in her DNA is the truth her mother hid for twenty-nine years: Jazmin’s father was part of a classified genetic experiment known as the CANIS Program.The program was designed to engineer enhanced humans.Instead, it created carriers—people whose bodies can shift between human and wolf.When the biotechnology company that created the experiment moves to contain or eliminate the surviving subjects, Jazmin becomes the key to a discovery the scientists never anticipated. The transformation isn’t a disease.It’s an evolution.Guided by the daughter of the original researcher and hunted by the institution that tried to suppress the truth, Jazmin must decide whether to fight the wolf inside her—or become the first person to master it.Because if integration is possible, the future of humanity may no longer belong to humans alone.LUPATEK is a literary science fiction thriller about identity, genetic engineering, and what happens when humanity stops fearing the monster—and starts becoming it.For readers of Blake Crouch, Jeff VanderMeer, Margaret Atwood, and Annihilation. Read more