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On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell embarks on a hike into the Santa Ana Mountains, seeking solace from a life he perceives as cursed. His solitary journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a highly intelligent Golden Retriever, a dog he names Einstein, who possesses an astonishing ability to communicate through sign language. Travis soon discovers that Einstein is no ordinary animal but an escapee from a clandestine government genetics laboratory, where he was engineered with enhanced intelligence. Hot on their trail is another, far more terrifying creation from the same project: a monstrous, shapeless entity known only as the Outsider, designed for ultimate destruction. As Travis and Einstein flee for their lives, they cross paths with Nora Devon, a reclusive young woman with a traumatic past, who finds an unlikely bond with them. Together, this makeshift family must outwit and outrun the relentless pursuit of both the creature and the shadowy government agents determined to recapture their experimental subjects, plunging them into a desperate fight for survival against mankind's darkest scientific creations.