ALSO BY JAY KRISTOFF
The Nevernight Chronicle (for adults)
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Contents
Chapter 2. 0: Reunion
Part 1: Mitosis and Meiosis
Chapter 2. 1: Splitsville
Chapter 2. 2: Jacked
Chapter 2. 3: Change
Chapter 2. 4: Proposition
Chapter 2. 5: Helotry
Chapter 2. 6: Disciples
Chapter 2. 7: Solomon
Chapter 2. 8: Paladin
Chapter 2. 9: Easy
Chapter 2. 10: Rumble
Chapter 2. 11: Family
Part 2: By Means of Natural Selection
Chapter 2. 12: Order
Chapter 2. 13: Fix
Chapter 2.
14: PurityChapter 2. 15: Superior
Chapter 2. 16: Falls
Chapter 2. 17: Legacy
Chapter 2. 18: Bending
Chapter 2. 19: Shock
Chapter 2. 20: Partners
Chapter 2. 21: Tagalong
Chapter 2. 22: Unbecoming
Part 3: Survival of the Fittest
Chapter 2. 23: Cake
Chapter 2. 24: Jugartown
Chapter 2. 25: Dustup
Chapter 2. 26: Fracas
Chapter 2. 27: Equalizer
Chapter 2. 28: Fear
Chapter 2. 29: Burn
Chapter 2. 30: Collision
Chapter 2. 31: Descent
Chapter 2. 32: Immolation
Chapter 2. 33: Coda
Turn a blind eye,
Until the day we die.
Maybe we’ve passed the point of no return.
Maybe we just want to watch the world burn.
—Thomas Searle
Eve—the thirteenth and final model in the Lifelike series. Raised to believe she was human, Eve spent the last two years on the island of Dregs in the care of Silas Carpenter. Under Silas’s tutelage, she became an expert mechanic, and piloted robot fighters in the gladiatorial spectacle known as WarDome.
In truth, Eve is an android replica created in the image of Ana Monrova, youngest daughter of Nicholas Monrova, director of the Gnosis Laboratories megacorporation. After Silas’s abduction, Eve traveled from Dregs to the mainland to rescue the man she believed was her grandfather, eventually leading to a deadly confrontation in Babel, former capital of the fallen GnosisLabs.