MITE (Book One) is the first of this gripping, thought provoking, Young Adult story of how a seemingly positive, beneficial breakthrough in medical technology with many wonderful applications can be corrupted for unscrupulous use by powerful companies,their corporate leaders, and top scientists. MITE is a cautionary tale loaded with drama, corporate conspiracy, exciting adventures and a little teenage romance, Readers of author M.S. Antonucci’s novel will be drawn to the charismatic characters and their thrilling conflict. The very real possibilities of MITE’s fantasy technology and this absorbing story of its ominous effects on its innocent subjects will inspire readers of all ages to ask, “What if?”A father walking towards the lifeless body of his daughter, Kailey, a fate brought on by his own doing. He never thought that by enrolling her in a program meant for protection it would become her biggest source of danger. MITE tells a story of a young couple driven into the scientific community by their inability to naturally conceive. Once given a chance by a doctor with interests in a new form of surveillance, their fears of the world around them leads the young parents to enroll in his program; a decision that will change their lives and the life of their daughter.Spinning out of control, Allen begins a drunken overprotective surveillance over the course of his daughter’s adolescence. As tragic events unfold, he is driven into an alcohol-induced madness which sends his daughter seeking freedom from his parental control. Soon, an overlooked stipulation in the contract between him and the doctor shifts Kailey from a patient to prey as the misguided program seeks to tie up loose ends. Now Kailey finds herself part of a hidden resistance of like-fated former patients coping with a life of lies and the reality of being hunted and their only option; to fight back.