She died in a lab accident. Zenku Corporation decided that was no reason to stop working with her.
Dr. Sophia Vance was a brilliant bio-engineer — until the day her own research killed her. When she wakes on a cold slab beneath the Zenku tower, her body is a patchwork of pale synthetic skin and glowing circuitry, her memories fragmentary, her hunger something no human should feel. She is not alive. She is not dead. She is a Zombiborg: reanimated tissue, a dormant virus, and a lattice of nanobots — corporate intellectual property walking out the door.
The order was to purge the prototype. Sophia has other plans.
Fighting her way through lockdowns, sentry drones, and the mindless "failures" that came before her, she discovers a truth worse than her death: the notes that perfected her transition were her own. And Zenku's Hive network — forty-one cities of stolen minds — is still listening.
To free the others, she'll have to do the impossible: rewrite the machine from the inside, one city at a time. Even if there's no way home written for her.