The Person Clause

Humanity finally learned how to redesign the body.

It never learned who gets the final say.

At Voss Biolabs, revolutionary regenerative technology allows adults to reshape themselves in ways once thought impossible. Mara Ellis chose feline ears, a tail, and subtle markings—and nothing more. She loves the body she built.

Then the company produces a document claiming she authorized another procedure.

She didn’t.

The treatment is stopped before it reaches her body, but the false signature exposes something far larger: outdated records feeding live medical systems, research goals becoming patient preferences, proprietary treatments creating lifelong dependency, and corporations whose ownership of the technology is beginning to blur into ownership of the people who rely on it.

As investigative journalist Leah Mercer follows a trail of disputed consent, altered records, and patients struggling to control what happens to their own bodies, Voss Biolabs is forced to answer a question no patent can settle:

If a company can own the process that made you, how much of you can it claim?

The Person Clause is a near-future science-fiction thriller about transformation, consent, corporate power, medical dependence, and the line that should never move—the one between owning the technology and owning the person.