Attorney Jennifer Rockhill's plans for revenge fall into place the day she's hired as the corporate attorney for a Seattle biotech firm. Her job description calls for her to draft research agreements for the firm's scientists. But it also lets her get tantalizingly close to Dr. Sherwood Fielding, the man she believes killed her husband.

Jennifer has to prove that Dr. Fielding funded his biotech firm by dealing in illegally obtained human organs--including her husband's--for transplant into the bodies of people who could pay almost any price to extend their lives. But that's not the worst of Sherwood Fielding's transgressions against nature, as Jennifer soon finds out.

Working on the cutting edge of a lucrative field like genetics is risky--and Jennifer finds herself in a maelstrom of murder, industrial espionage, deceit, and personal betrayal. Embroiled in a plot of unimaginable medical perversion, Jennifer must fight to uncover the truth about what's being done at the firm. Especially as it leads her to the truth of how and why her husband died.

"Christofferson's second novel leaves us eagerly awaiting the third."
- Booklist

"Michael Crichton-like . . .This debut thriller is expertly paced and tautly woven . . .a suspenseful success."
- Publishers Weekly

"The Protocol is an exciting romantic medical thriller . . .April Christoffersofferson demonstrates much talent that allows the audience to fully grasp modern science within an arousing but chilling thriller."
- Midwest Book Review

"Can't put down suspense. . .the best novel of revenge and retribution I've read in a very long time."
- Michael Palmer, bestselling author.