Farring thought her life was over when she was sentenced to be merged with her husband to become an Elder—people who live almost half as long as ordinary people and who devote their isolated existences to amassing new experiences.

When she emerges from the Machine, Farring asks herself what parts of her mind are still hers and which are her husband’s, but she doesn’t realise yet that her merging wasn’t a regular one.

Now trapped in the Elders village, surrounded by enemies waiting for her to make a mistake, Farring only has one objective, to escape, but she doesn’t