Death Departed

"Why isn't there an electric shock when we touch?" I ask Quinton.

He takes his eyes off the road momentarily, looking at me as if I'm going to disappear at any moment, like the little girl in the orchard or the one in oil paints with the crushed bouquet.

"Do you ever think that our lives have been planned ahead of our existence?"

I don't attempt to answer. If my life has been planned, I wonder what direction it's meant to take.

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Lina Towley is one of the ordained: brought back from the dead by government scientists who believe she has a purpose to fulfill on Earth. Living a half-existence until she discovers the purpose planned for her she has no recollection of her past life. Along comes Quinton who tells her she isn’t like the others and may be able to help reveal her past. Not only that but he offers her another, more dangerous purpose that puts at risk everything and everyone she holds dear. Forced with a choice between two purposes, one chosen by scientists and the other by a man she barely knows, which will she choose and does she have the power to make decisions for herself? One thing is for certain, the society she lives in isn’t everything it is made out to be, and the government is determined that no one should know that Lina and her fellow ordainees ever even existed.