The Outlier: A Nove By Elisabeth Eaves

Cate Winter, a 34-year-old wildly successful neuroscientist and entrepreneur, has invented a groundbreaking cure for Alzheimer's, poised to improve millions of lives. On the brink of selling her biotech company for an enormous sum, she stands on the cusp of immense wealth. However, Cate harbors a secret that keeps her deeply uneasy: she grew up at the Cleckley Institute, a facility for rehabilitating psychopathic children. As far as she knows, she is the institute’s only success, with her peers becoming maladjusted or even criminal adults.

Cate’s world shifts when she discovers another ex-patient who, like her, appears to have thrived. Breaking the rules, she tracks him down to Baja California, where he lives under an assumed name. This man, driven and brilliant like Cate, is an innovator dedicated to perfecting a new energy technology to combat global warming. Finally, Cate has found her mirror, a potential collaborator, and the key to understanding her own nature.

Their connection is intense, but the discovery of a mysterious death shakes Cate to her core. She can't help but suspect her newfound counterpart. If he is involved, do his ends justify his means? As a ruthless individual herself, Cate is about to confront the true extent of her own moral boundaries.

In this audaciously twisty psychological thriller, Cate Winter must solve two mysteries: finding the killer and uncovering what she herself is capable of when pushed to extremes.