Almost twenty years after the Awakening that turned the world into a giant fistfight, Mathilda's life has finally started to feel normal. She works as a nurse in the Naval Medical Center of Portsmouth, Virginia, and in this city, no one knows about who she is, or what she is. Days are allowed to pass without the need for her to stitch her own wounds, or for her to kill anyone. Even better, she does not have to run away again, not yet.
However,...