All Her Potential - by Lev Ac Rosen (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Orphan Black meets Knives Out but starring a middle-aged Veronica Mars in this family drama wrapped in a sci-fi mystery from Macavity Award-winning author Lev AC Rosen, about a scientist's daughter who returns home to solve her father's murder--and her cloned sisters are the prime suspects.

Though raised in the shadow of her billionaire genius father Stephen, Ada Klee is happy. She's a therapist who uses game and play strategies for her patients, and is a loving mother. Her daughter doesn't live in the shadow of disapproval, as Ada did under her father, or know the terrible secret she discovered years ago that pushed Stephen out of her life.

But Ada is pulled back into Stephen's orbit when his body is discovered in his isolated Utah compound. The only people on the property were Stephen's assistant and the five women whose creation still feels like a violation of Ada's own existence. Each of them are trained to excel in their fields: science, politics, finance, entertainment, and the military. And all of them are linked to Ada, closer than she's ever admitted, by genes her father stole from her--to make up, it was implied, for her wasted potential.

To protect these women's true origins from the public eye--and to spare her own daughter--Ada must uncover the truth behind her father's death in a single night, even if it means unraveling the secrets that bind them all together.

A Golden Age mystery with a speculative bent, All Her Potential explores the perils of nature versus nurture, and how our greatest strengths could result in the deadliest of possibilities. Because if one of them has the potential for murder--they all do. Even Ada herself.

Review Quotes

Praise for Lev AC Rosen

"All Her Potential is a fantastic and emotional mystery. It's not a Sliding Doors story, but something more intense -- what happens when you confront another version of yourself and realize that, under the right circumstances, you would be capable of murder?" --Mary Robinette Kowal, USA Today bestselling author of the Lady Astronaut series and The Spare Man

"Deviously imaginative! A puzzler built on a premise that eats itself, 'Every touched memory gets changed when it's remembered.' Lev AC Rosen always keeps us guessing but All Her Potential is a new level. Speculative and deeply personal, a whodunnit about the many versions of ourselves. For fans of Black Mirror and My Murder, and anyone who loves 'impossible crimes', mysteries that ask what a self's even made of. I'm obsessed with this book." --Margot Douaihy, USA Today bestselling author of Scorched Grace, Blessed Water, and Divine Ruin

"Lev Rosen is at the top of his game with All Her Potential a fun, genre-bending mystery that serves up a compelling protagonist and twists galore. Pulpy and timeless, Rosen manages to inject the best elements of sci-fi and old school mysteries into a book that will keep readers engrossed and entertained. It was a ride!" --Alex Segura, bestselling and award-winning author of Daredevil: Enemy of My Enemy, Alter Ego, and Secret Identity

"Cloning ethics, murder mystery, and family angst, what's not to like? This book kept me guessing the whole time." --Mur Lafferty, Hugo Award-winning author of the Midsolar Murders series

"Lev AC Rosen's All Her Potential is a fun, twisty locked-room murder mystery about parenthood and the human desire to understand what makes us in its darkest, most obsessive form. Sisters, get your knives out." --Yume Kitasei, author of Saltcrop and The Stardust Grail

"Lev AC Rosen gets right to the heart of identity, the way that families can be composed of strangers, and the way our DNA does and does not define us. Satisfying mystery at its sci-fi best." --Meg Elison, Philip K. Dick award winner for All Her Potential

"A fun and engaging page-turner, All Her Potential delivers intrigue like the best murder mysteries and inspires what-if wonder like my favorite sci-fi stories. With messy family dynamics and ruminations on paths not taken, Rosen's genre-blending take on the whodunit is an utter delight!" --Victor Manibo, author of The Sleepless and Escape Velocity

About the Author

Lev AC Rosen is the USA Today bestselling, Macavity and Joseph Hansen Award-winning, and Anthony and Lambda Award-nominated author of mystery and speculative fiction, including the Evander Mills series and the YA novels Emmett, Lion's Legacy, and Camp. He lives in New York City with his husband and a very small cat, and can be found online at LevACRosen.com.