And The There Was Peace

A sample taken from deep inside a comet has returned to Earth.It should be nothing more than mineral dust.Then it moves.At the isolated Halberd Point research facility, Dr Frances Ward watches the particles absorb matter, rebuild themselves and divide. Within hours, the organism has learned to crawl. To breathe. To reproduce.And to copy.When it enters the human body, it does not simply infect its host. It studies every nerve, organ and memory-then builds something better. Transparent hands grow beneath the skin. Hearts beat outside the body. The dead speak with familiar voices.As containment collapses, Frances discovers that the organism is not trying to destroy humanity.It is trying to preserve it.Every person can be rebuilt. Every memory restored. Every loss undone.But when a copy remembers your life, feels your love and begs you not to kill it, where does the human being end-and the imitation begin?A relentless science-fiction body-horror novel about identity, consent and the terrifying price of a world without death.And then there was peace.