Erica
had never seen so many new plants in a forest before. Her coworkers
had decided not to head up this way, but she refused to leave Brazil
without checking it out. Her research team was camped deep in the
Amazon rainforest, studying plants that grew nowhere else. Hundreds
of miles from civilization, they’d found numerous flowers and trees
that had promising properties for medical research. They were
planning to pack up and head home tomorrow, but Erica had stared
longingly at a plateau nea