Throughout history there have always been whispers of secret government testing and scientific experimentations. People attempting to break beyond the possible and into a world only imagined. For someone like Jason Chittum, these whispers were his reality, a test subject molded for some unknown experiment, cultivated for some hidden agenda and made for something secret. That was all Jason had ever known, until one fateful day, when a new subject was introduced to the compound. Now Jason has to make some of the most important decisions of his life as he begins to rebuild his humanity from the ground up, uncovering secrets that would have been better left unknown. What lies ahead? Who can be trusted? And, what, is Alpha 17?