Victoria stared at the scan results spread across her doctor's desk. The images showed her body from the inside, revealing the battle waged within her tissues and bones. But unlike previous scans, these told a different story.

"The tumors have shrunk by sixty-three percent," Dr. Winters said, her finger tracing the outlines on the images. "It's the best response I've seen to this treatment protocol."

Victoria kept her face blank, decades of boardroom ...