Set in a near and uncertain future, this dystopian thriller portrays the rise of a genetic underclass oppressed by a powerful healthcare institution that promises an afterlife…but not to everyone. Swift moving, dramatic, and dark, Ascendants explores mortality and morality in the face of capitalism, ideology, and ever-encroaching technology through the interconnected journeys of Maya Teller, a rebellious young woman suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and her sister, Hannah, a target of The Jacobs Institute; Sam Lee, a schoolteacher whose unyielding belief in Ascension comes into question following the death of his wife; and the architects of Ascension: Dr. Charles Jacobs, whose inability to heal his daughter from a terminal illness haunts him, and Dr. Henry Price, a vicious authoritarian obsessed with the Institute’s most terrible secret.