FOX — Kelly Oliver

KILLER GENES ARE NO ACCIDENT When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks she's been sexually assaulted. But after a pattern of similar crimes emerges in the vicinity of Northwestern Research Hospital, Jessica realizes she hasn't been raped, she's been robbed. Robbed of something as valuable as life itself. Following the trail of the thief, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher's boot-cut genes. The "dumpster girls" are all top of their class, attractive, college girls, who are drugged and dropped behind dumpsters with tiny mysterious incisions in their vaginal walls. The police are baffled. When a girl turns up dead, armed with her quick wit, cowgirl grit, and philosophy, it's up to Jessica to solve the mystery to save herself and her friends before they become the next victims. "Stoner" Jack Grove, a third year medical student studying abnormal psychiatry at Northwestern University, and one of Jessica's best friends, secretly has a crush on her. While Jack is trying to understand the criminal mind, his classmate and rival, Max White, is trying to eliminate it through genetic engineering. Competing for Jessica's attention, Jack and Max become the primary suspects in the series of "dumpster girls." Olga Davis, the trophy wife of business mogul and aspiring Senator Ronald Davies, is under pressure to get pregnant, she resorts to IVF at a fertility clinic run by Max White. When five embryos attach and are viable, Olga faces the toughest decision of her life. Trying to keep her "unnatural" pregnancy a secret, and obsessed with finding out the identity of the biological parents, Olga must steal from her husband, and pay off a blackmailer threatening to expose her. In Kelly Oliver's stunning page-turner, Jessica, Jack, and Olga are fighting not just for their own lives, but also for the very future of human life.