By Kevin J. Anderson

Think you may swap our bodies with another individual? What intriguing new studies might you decide to discover? What forbidden wishes could you indulge? think somebody stole your life–how some distance may you visit get it back?

From New York Times bestselling writer Kevin J. Anderson comes a natural adrenaline mystery of hijacked identities, elusive explanations, and deeply buried secrets–a anxious, thought-provoking day trip right into a modern, hedonistic society the place not anything is your own...not even your soul.

Hopscotch

For a price, Eduard Swan will change our bodies with humans in distress–those dealing with surgical procedures, emotional crises, moments of unpleasantness or ache they can’t or might relatively no longer care for. Eduard will adventure the affliction for them. It’s a profitable company, and in a global during which not anyone is needed to suppose any soreness, there's no finish of consumers. yet a person doesn’t are looking to play by way of the foundations. somebody doesn’t are looking to go back his physique. And, regrettably for Eduard, that somebody is likely one of the world’s strongest males. Now Eduard has no selection yet to scouse borrow again his lifestyles.

He has the suitable alibi–or so he thinks. For even in a global the place you could hopscotch from physique to physique, you usually go away a path. And following that path is a constant dispenser of “justice” named Daragon, a adolescence buddy, now a zealous and impressive agent of nation safety, who won’t permit previous friendships stand within the method of doing his accountability.

When Eduard is going at the run, hounded at each flip by means of Daragon, his in basic terms desire is 2 different formative years associates: Garth, a tormented artist who earnings good fortune past his wildest desires, in basic terms to find the negative fee of repute; and Teresa, a non secular seeker who hazards wasting her personal physique to a fanatical non secular cult as she embarks on a harrowing quest to discover her precise id.

Moving from underground hopscotch excitement bars to the top enclaves of strength to a seamy underworld of unlawful Phantoms, historic minds who thieve more youthful our bodies in a quest for everlasting existence, Eduard and his acquaintances search the that means of id in a society within which appearances suggest everything–and nothing–and the place every little thing is relative...even homicide.

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