Genuinely one of the best books I have read in a long, long time.” -Greg Rucka, New York Times bestselling author and creator of The Old Guard This is, for all its twists, turns, and tricks, a novel that does what a novel should do: examine what makes us human after all. “ Constance is a blistering, balletic read-silky-smooth world building that effortlessly grounds a wonderful, harrowing tale of mystery, suspense, identity, friendship, and redemption. “What a book! Like all the best speculative fiction, FitzSimmons’s compelling thriller Constance takes elements of real science and spins them up into a novel and terrifying premise.” -Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Because only one thing has become clear: Con is being marked for murder-all over again. On the run, she needs someone she can trust. To uncover the truth, Con is retracing the last days she can recall, crossing paths with a detective who’s just as curious. The secrets of Con’s disorienting new life are buried deep. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later.

For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying.Īfter a routine monthly upload of her consciousness-stored for that inevitable transition-something goes wrong. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature.

For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman’s waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Gibson Vaughn series.

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