SPOILER ALERT! If you haven’t read the first two books in the sequence, Partials and Fragments, Stop! I don’t want to ruin in the story for you. Beware.
“Humanity’s final hour. Her final
stand.”
Dr. McKenna Morgan
and her army of Partials are threatening war against the human residents of East
Meadow if Kira Walker is not turned over to her. Each day the residents did not
surrender her, one of them would be executed. Partials were bred to be stronger
and more resilient than humans but they only have a twenty year life span. Dr.
Morgan believes Kira, a previously unknown Partial model, holds the key to
curing the expiration date. Outnumbered ten to one, the humans lost one of
their own every day for over a month before a renegade found an abandoned
nuclear warhead. Just as a group of leaders decide their best possible course
of action would be to evacuate Long Island before the detonation, the radio
message stops. Even if the Partials have Kira, the group decides to move
forward.
Kira has
turned herself in to Dr. Morgan. Dr. Morgan is working with Dr. Vale to find a
cure for the expiration date. Kira has none of the genetic handicaps that the
other Partials have, including the expiration date. Dr. Morgan hopes that
something in Kira’s genetic code can help save the Partials. All of the Partial
doctors and leaders have already died and what remains are the soldier models.
Their numbers are steadily dwindling and a new wave is expected to die in just
a few weeks. Time is running out for everyone; Partials and humans. Kira has
given herself up in the hope of saving everyone.
Samm stayed
behind with Heron at the Preserve. Unlike the humans on Long Island with no
cure for RM, Dr. Vale kept nine Partials comatose in order to harvest the
Lurker pheromone, the basis for the cure for RM. The Preserve humans have been
able to have healthy children while those on Long Island have not. Samm is part
of the last purchase order of Partials. Their expiration date is in eight
months. He knows that Kira left to go help find a cure but Samm wonders if he
will ever see her again.
Nandita
Merchant created the Partials and RM. She kidnapped four girls and used them
for experimentation. She lied to everyone about the girls’ true nature. Ariel,
Kira and Isolde are actually Partials. Ariel’s own baby died two years ago and
now Isolde’s son Khan is sick with a mysterious disease and it looks fatal. It
seems that hybrid children can die as well. They are packing to leave Long
Island along with Senator Kessler, Xochi, Madison and her miracle baby Arwen,
the first human child to survive in twelve years. Two Partial soldiers almost
discover Nandita and Arwen before the group can leave East Meadow. They are
planning to head to the Plum Island Disease Research Center, a completely
isolated lab where Nandita worked. There, she hopes to study Khan’s illness and
find a cure.
Is Kira the
key to both human and Partial survival? What kind of Partial is Kira? Why was
she built and why was her true existence kept a secret? Can the humans and
Partials learn to live and work together? Will the cure to the Partial
expiration date be found? Does Nandita’s group make it to Plum Island? Will a
cure be found for Khan? Can Samm and Kira find their way back to each other?
Will anyone survive?
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