April Dawn: Life After Death

By: Cain, P. D.

She was rebuilt after death. Now she has to prove she deserves to stay that way.
April Dawn has spent three years learning how to be human again - new body, new mind, a voice in her head that isn't hers, and a past she's still piecing together.
When her adoptive family's covert program sends her undercover at Cornell University as transfer student Zara Blackwood, she thinks she's investigating a routine biosecurity threat. She's wrong. Buried in the research of one of the world's most respected scientists is a synthetic pathogen engineered to move through the food supply of an entire continent - and April is the only one who can get close enough to stop it before it reaches a room full of unsuspecting targets. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more the people she trusts start keeping secrets of their own, and the more she starts to wonder whether the thing she's protecting the world from is the same thing that was used to build her. With a synthetic consciousness she's still learning to trust, a found family willing to break every rule to keep her safe, and a government that sees her as an asset first and a person second, April has to decide how far she'll go to stop a catastrophe - and what she's willing to risk to be recognized as more than the weapon she was built to be.
Life After Death is Book 3 in the April Dawn series, a YA sci-fi thriller about consciousness, identity, and what it costs to choose who you become when someone else built you for a different purpose.
Perfect for readers who love: Artificial intelligence and synthetic consciousness stories with real emotional stakesFound-family teams and slow-burn undercover espionageBioterrorism thrillers and ticking-clock conspiraciesStrong female leads who are more than the powers they were given YA science fiction that asks what it really means to be a personStart with Life Lives and Life and Deathto meet April from the beginning - or dive straight into Life After Death for a standalone thriller that raises the stakes higher than ever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HFNYS85P
• ISBN13: 9798193452522
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"