Immortality Is Your Final Punishment

Callum traded his mind to save Rose's life — or so she believed. She forfeited her ticket home and stayed in the simulated reality for three years to nurse him back to health, telling him the secrets of the System because she thought they were a team. Then the man who supposedly could not tie his own shoes drove a black SUV straight into her, his hand entwined with Becca, the high school sweetheart he never forgot.

Callum was never brain-damaged. Every stupid smile was a blueprint for her murder, so that he and Becca could take the Program and live forever. But Rose was not staying for the perks. She was staying for the punishment, and she offers the System two new hosts. The transfer is accepted, with a seventy-two-hour stabilization period before extraction.

Now healed and free of the tether, Rose must settle her affairs in this world — including Grandpa Henry, who gave his life savings for Callum's car. At the hospital she sees Callum clutching a sonogram, and at the house she finds the housekeeper hauling her shattered belongings to the curb.