June never asked to be cloned from her mother's DNA. She didn't ask for the faulty heart that beats in her chest either. She made a life for herself as a college professor, but what she really wants is the same as everyone else: a human connection. But how can she connect to someone when her heart's next beat could be the last?

Her estranged father shows up on her doorstep, warning her that he's being forced back into the illegal human cloning world and she's in danger, but she dismisses him as paranoid. That's until he disappears. The...