He Left Me to Burn

For seven years, Audrey has stood beside Julian Croft, until the night a fire traps them in an abandoned chemical plant. There is only one gas mask, and Julian presses it over the face of Sophie, who says she cannot breathe. He tells Audrey to hold on, certain her diving-trained lungs can last. But her arm is torn open, and the countdown on the panel only she can see is running out.

When the system declares the mission failed, Audrey confirms the termination of her host body. A burning beam falls. Three days later, in Oakhaven, Julian is shown a charred corpse still clutching the foil ring he once folded for her, and he breaks.

Yet Audrey wakes in an unmarked body aboard a private jet bound for Wall Street, seated across from Elias Croft, the uncle everyone believed dead. He gives her a new name, Blair Sterling, and an offer: help him take back the Croft family, and she can make Julian pay.