Earth of the future. The long-awaited ability to transfer your consciousness into an undying artificial body-a personifid-has come. Sevig Empire Corporation, the monopolizing force in personifid production, has secretly developed a device to manipulate all personifids. This device has now been stolen. Aphra unknowingly holds the key to the plans for that new technology-and now her life is in danger. Sevig Empire wants her found. Hunters, human and machine, close in.