Henry Vreek-Harrow used to be a Sifter, hunting and safeKilling suicides before they happened. Then Home’s last serial murderer famously destroyed his life.
But that’s all been redacted.
Now Henry scrapes by in obscurity as a Paused Lives Investigator. By day, he locates the long-dead for loved ones eager to reNew them to living clones. By night, he haunts the Death Clubs and the few bars that still serve salvaged liquor. It’s a numbing, empty life and Henry plans to live it forever.
But a clone scam gone wrong forces him to take the case of a beautiful murder victim desperate to find her 7-year-old daughter. With authorities closing in, Henry must decide whether or not to reNew a kind of criminal not seen in centuries…the serial killer who murdered his client and her daughter.