Immortality seemed so attractive when she signed up. A young clone is ready to take over her life. But she's changed her mind.
The year is 2042. Anna Bradley - rich, comfortable, 59 years old - is in line for serial immortality, her memories transferred to a new body cloned eighteen years ago. When the time comes there will be another body, and another. Once this was all Anna wanted, but she's lost her faith. Whoever wakes up in the new body, she can't believe it will be her, and she doesn't want to die.
The Semper Corporation has a contract with her name on it. The lawyers say she's rich enough to get out of it, but there's an eighteen-year-old girl waiting to come into a life of her own. And when it comes down to it that's what matters.
Anna has an unknown ally.
Semper ruthlessly exploits the latest science and the politics of a fragmenting world to clone the rich and pile up their money, leaving many people in its wake to take their chances. One of these, though, has worked himself into an important position in the corporation, and Anna's challenge gives him the chance to make his final move.