The Rabbit in the Winter Sky

Katherine was four years old when her parents first saw her bend the rules of the world, and four years old when they gave her away.

Raised inside a classified research facility she has no name for, Kate grows up as Subject 771: a girl who can move matter, cross impossible distances, and survive what should kill her, at a cost her own body pays every time. The only person who ever treats her as something more than a phenomenon to be measured is Dr. Sarah Wexler, the physician who spends a decade teaching her the names of constellations through a stolen telescope, and who becomes, against every rule the institution can write, the closest thing to a mother Kate has left.

When Kate finally meets Emma, Sarah's daughter and a rising CIA operative, something neither of them can name passes between them in a corridor, and grows, slowly and dangerously, into the one thing Kate has never been permitted to have: a life that belongs to her.

But the agency that made her has other plans. Two years of covert training reshape Kate into something harder, more controlled, more useful, and when she returns, Director Ashworth is waiting to make sure she never forgets exactly who she belongs to. What follows is a war fought on two fronts: one against a foreign compound half a world away, and one, far more intimate and far harder to survive, fought inside the walls of the only home Kate has ever known.

The Rabbit in the Winter Sky is the story of a girl built to be a weapon, the two women who refuse to let her become only that, and the quiet, stubborn light of a distant star that might already be gone by the time anyone sees it, and still, somehow, be worth looking for.