Human cloning has become a legal industry in the United States. Despite ethical concerns, the ultra-wealthy use this technology to commission replacement copies of loved ones who have died. Edgar Prime is the first clone, copied from the DNA of the lead scientist who developed the technology.
Annabel King is the second, engineered by a wealthy widower to replace the wife he lost to cancer when they were both in their thirties.
Javi Vasquez is the third, created by grieving parents after their son died in a car crash on his seventeenth birthday.
As the first three clones approach adulthood they struggle to forge their own destinies free of their creators.
Simultaneously, an undercover FBI investigation infiltrates a black market where "defective" clones are bought and sold for criminal purposes.
The unintended consequences of unleashing such a powerful technology on the world explode in this riveting near-future technological thriller.
