This Mortal Coil Author:Emily Suvada In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father?s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague. — Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that?s not what makes her special. In Cat?s world, people are implanted with technology to... more » recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius.
That?s no surprise, since Cat?s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own.
When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat?s instincts tell her it?s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat?s help to release it and save the human race.
Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?« less