Touch a door knob. Trail your hand along a stair railing. Grasp a handhold on the train. With every contact you leave a part of yourself behind. How much of your past can she see?
Ellen Morris just wants to move on with her life, leave the past behind, get to a place where no one is looking for her. A place where no one is looking for the talent, because she's already been a guest in one of the Republic's research centers. She'll pass on a second invitation.
And then her guardian is found, and he leads the Republic's agents straight to her, and the agents are trying to make a deal with her family, the very people who might want her dead. Ellen knows she has to run, but where will she go now that everyone knows who she really is?