Holo-play actor Emma Sloan teeters on the edge of death after a studio accident leaves third degree burns over eighty-percent of her body. In a last-ditch effort to save her life, desperate doctors bring her into an experimental program that replaces her damaged skin with a bio-engineered organism. The artificial skin saves her life, but it turns her into a monster. She will never again appear on a holo-stage. Horrified by the hideous change in her appearance, Emma has hardly begun to grieve her death when six previous test subjects break out of their controlled environment. The last symbiont...