One year, four days, and twenty-minutes ago, seventeen-year-old Alice Gaede woke up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who she was. That's when Rachel took her in, and made her perfect: perfectly beautiful, perfectly smart, perfectly obedient, and most importantly, a perfect fighter. Her files read "special case."
Without memories, though, Alice has no understanding of normal human behavior. In the hopes of teaching her social skills, Rachel enrolls her in the local high school.
Alice is unprepared to face this emotional, vulnerable, crowded human place, but despite Rachel's plans, an unlikely friendship with classmate Wrena and a surprising love interest with charming Corin forcefully exposes her to the idea of joy, pain, and what it means to be a human. As she begins to questions everything Rachel had ever taught her, her old life makes a shocking appearance, and Alice is forced to make a devastating choice. How human is she, really?
Almost a millenium ago, the dear world we live in was almost destroyed when the superhumans we call "zegens" created a creature too powerful for them to control. Their monstrosity - Feto - would have ended humanity as we know it if not for the intervention of the courageous heroes who risked their lives to seal it away.
Many centuries later, in 2023, the new generation of the Zomer (the cult that nearly inadvertently caused the apocalypse) is back and they are now targeting Aaron, a teenage zegen orphan living in Brussels, Belgium. Little by little, with the help of his classmates - Mathéo, Sara and Laura - the boy unravels the secrets behind his conception and the four adolescents are all roped into an iniquitous plot that's much bigger than all of them.
What truly happened to Aaron's parents for them to have abandoned him? Why is the Zomer so interested in him? Could any of this be connected to Feto?
Cover art by @hxllsing
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