Borrowed Bodies

The wealthy can buy youth. The poor can only rent it to them. In the divided megacity of Meridian, the rich no longer wait for their damaged bodies to heal. They transfer their minds into younger, healthier hosts—and pay desperate people to disappear for a few days. A struggling mother accepts one rental contract to afford the treatment that could save her son. She expects to wake seventy-two hours later in her own body with enough money to keep her family together. Instead, she awakens covered in blood, surrounded by weapons, and trapped inside the body of the most wanted murderer in the city. Now every camera recognizes her as a killer. The police are closing in. The corporation responsible for the transfer denies she exists. And someone else is walking through Meridian wearing her face—and getting dangerously close to her son. With the transfer rapidly becoming permanent, she must follow the fugitive's buried memories into a conspiracy built on stolen identities, erased minds, and an immortality industry that treats human bodies as disposable property. But the deeper she digs, the harder it becomes to separate the murderer's instincts from her own—and the more terrifying the truth becomes: The transfer was not an accident. Borrowed Bodies is a fast-paced dystopian science-fiction thriller about identity, motherhood, corporate power, and what remains of a person when memory, flesh, and consciousness can all be bought.