There are laws banning human cloning-for a reason.
Travis Brody has spent years outrunning his past, hiding behind sarcasm and grease-stained shifts at Stella's Diner in Bethlehem PA. But on a brutal February night, he makes one mistake-he stops. A dying man presses a mysterious package into his hands. A terrified child clings to him. And in seconds, Travis becomes the target of a kill order he doesn't understand.
Jesse Daniel Messenger looks like an ordinary five-year-old-but he isn't. He's a living secret, engineered, hunted, and worth more dead than alive. Powerful men have spent centuries protecting the truth behind him-and they'll burn the world to keep it buried.
Janey Carmichael never expected to be pulled into a war fought in shadows, but her loyalty to Travis outweighs her fear. As bullets fly and bodies drop, the two are thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse with no safe exits.
Because The Committee is always watching.
And Jack Patterson-the assassin sent to erase them-is already close.
Now, every choice is a risk. Every second borrowed. And if Travis fails, it won't just cost them their lives... it could unleash something the world was never meant to survive.