At six years old, Jabari Thomas made a promise at his dying mother's bedside: he would find a cure. Thirteen years later, the nineteen-year-old medical prodigy has kept his word. He has engineered the Prodigy Protocol, a revolutionary nanotechnology capable of repairing cellular damage and curing diseases from the inside out.
But a universal cure threatens the foundations of the trillion-dollar healthcare industry.
When his research is compromised, Jabari is framed as a bioterrorist and hunted across New York City. With the only complete copy of the Protocol hidden on his person, he is forced into the city's unforgiving underground. There, he forms an alliance with Kai, a resourceful teenager fighting to save his own sick sister. Meanwhile, Jabari's father faces down federal agents and corporate operatives above ground to protect his son. Pursued by a pharmaceutical empire that wants to bury the cure, a corporation that wants to monopolize it, and a covert agency that wants to weaponize it, Jabari must survive the labyrinth beneath the streets.
The Prodigy Protocol is a gripping thriller that asks a chilling question: if a cure existed for everything, who would control it?
Tucker Cunningham, M.: - "M. Tucker is a writer, creative, and lifelong learner living in the heart of New York City with her two beloved cats. A mother of two sons and a devoted caregiver for her father, she has spent her life navigating the beautiful, messy intersection of family, responsibility, and creative ambition - and coming out sharper for it.With degrees in education, psychology, and business, she brings a rare combination of analytical depth and emotional intelligence to her work. She doesn't write from a single lens - she draws on a broad foundation of knowledge about how people think, how they learn, and what drives them. Add to that fluency in coding and technology, and the picture becomes even more unconventional. She is as comfortable building in a digital environment as she is crafting a narrative on the page - a combination that keeps her work modern, adaptive, and ahead of the curve.That academic range and technical skill, paired with hard-won life experience, give her writing a voice that is both informed and deeply human.Her work is rooted in resilience. Life's obstacles have never been roadblocks for M. Tucker - they've been material. Every challenge she has faced, from the demands of caregiving to the complexities of raising a family in one of the world's most relentless cities, has deepened her perspective and sharpened her voice. She writes from experience, not theory.Creativity isn't just a part of what she does - it is who she is. An avid creative in every sense of the word, she moves fluidly between music, photography, crocheting, sewing, sculpting, painting, beading, macramé, and more - always with something in progress and something new to try. Her hands are rarely still. That restless creative energy carries over into her writing, where she approaches every project with the same spirit - build it, shape it, make it real. Whether working with yarn, clay, code, a camera, or words, she treats every medium as an opportunity to explore, experiment, and express something true.At home, her two cats are more than pets - they are her daily companions, creative muses, and a constant source of comfort and joy. A devoted animal lover at her core, she has always felt a deep connection to animals of all kinds, finding in them a grounding honesty and unconditional warmth that she carries into her work and her worldview. Her cats have a way of showing up at exactly the right moment - curled on her desk mid-draft, weaving between her feet while she paints - reminding her that the best things in life don't follow a schedule.Through her writing, M. Tucker connects with readers who know what it means to push through - the ones juggling too much, giving too much, and still showing up for themselves. Her mission is simple: to inspire others to own their journey, trust their voice, and stop apologizing for taking up space."
