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Life on Destiny Islands has always been simple for Ren Calder. He fixes boats at his family's marina, sails the surrounding waters, and is perfectly content leaving Keyblades and world-saving adventures to people like Sora, Riku, and Kairi.
Then Ren begins dreaming of a girl he's never met.
A girl surrounded by crimson light.
Far beyond the islands, Dr. Halden Rook, a former researcher connected to Organization XIII's Replica technology, has begun an experiment of his own. Using Kairi as the foundation, Rook creates an entire generation of Replicas-girls given her face, fragments of her memories, and carefully designed purposes.
His masterpiece is K-CRIMSON-01.
She was created to lead.
Created to obey.
Created to keep the other Replicas functioning exactly as Rook intended.
Instead, she chooses to protect them.
Calling herself Crimson, she leads her sisters in a desperate escape from the laboratory, determined to prove that none of them are experiments, replacements, or disposable copies. But one sister is lost during the escape, falling through the worlds and into the sea surrounding Destiny Islands.
Ren is the one who finds her.
Soon, Ren, Kairi, and the newly named Isla discover that she is only the beginning. More Replicas are out there. Rook wants his creations returned. The mysterious Dark Kairi remains fiercely loyal to him. And somehow, across worlds, Ren and Crimson can feel one another's hearts calling out.
Their search will eventually lead to a forgotten world waiting to live again:
Heartlight Haven.
A place where girls created to imitate someone else's past may finally build futures of their own.
And as Ren and Crimson are drawn closer together, Crimson will discover something Rook could never have programmed-
a heart can be given a beginning.
But who it loves, where it belongs, and who it becomes can only be chosen for itself.