Fifteen families control the world. That's fourteen too many. While she has taken control of the Family since her father's illness, Johanna Carlyle seeks to counter-attack Hock in North America. She misses her most formidable weapon, her sister, the Lazarus of her family: Forever. But there is another Forever Carlyle. She is 11 years old and has been manufactured to replace the old model. She is not yet ready. Worse still, the secret about her existence has been compromised. The Lazarus Sonja Bittner knows and intends to remedy the problem. A genocide is programmed.