Wren Connolly was born twice. At seventeen she took three bullets to the chest in the dreadful slums of Austin, and exactly one hundred seventy-eight minutes later the girl was revived. Now she is Wren One Hundred Seventy-Eight, the best soldier of the corporation. For in the world of the near future, the Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation has replaced God and is capable of resurrecting the dead and granting them immortality. This is called Reboot. But ordinary people consider reboots—the revived—to be monsters: reboots are stronger than humans, they know no fear, and are almost devoid of emotion. People try to exterminate them, but the all-powerful corporation forbids such extermination. Because it is far more profitable to adapt them for its own purposes, for they are the ideal soldiers…