ARgus AI: The First Incision

Isabella de Lacy has spent years learning how to save lives. She never intended to build something that could change medicine itself.

At thirty, cardiothoracic surgeon Isabella de Lacy returns to Britain after years in Singapore.

When a near-impossible cardiac case pushes her experimental ARGus AI into action, its potential becomes undeniable. With her family backing the project and building its software, Isabella develops APEX-and suddenly the world wants it.

Hospitals want access. Researchers want answers. Governments want influence. Corporations want ownership.

And Julian Vance-the enigmatic CEO of Aegis Analytics-becomes fascinated by the one person he cannot seem to read.

He offers £500 million, then £1 billion, then £2 billion for APEX.

Isabella refuses every time.

Because ARGus was never meant to become an empire. It was meant to save patients.

But as the technology Isabella built grows beyond anything she imagined-and her return brings her face-to-face with Jude Briggs, the man she once left without explanation-Isabella begins to understand the real danger of creating something revolutionary:

What happens when you create something capable of changing medicine... and everyone else decides they have a right to own it?