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Also by Margaret Fortune:

Archangel, January 2018
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Archangel, March 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Nova, June 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Nova, June 2015
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NOVA
By: Margaret Fortune

DAW
June 2015
On Sale: June 2, 2015
Featuring: Michael Sorenson; Lia Johansen
320 pages
ISBN: 0756410819
EAN: 9780756410810
Kindle: B00OQSF6HE
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mass Market Paperback (reprint - June 2016)

Science Fiction

*36:00:00*

The clock activates so suddenly in my mind, my head involuntarily jerks a bit to the side. The fog vanishes, dissipated in an instant as though it never was. Memories come slotting into place, their edges sharp enough to leave furrows, and suddenly I know. I know exactly who I am.

My name is Lia Johansen, and I was named for a prisoner of war. She lived in the Tiersten Internment Colony for two years, and when they negotiated the return of the prisoners, I was given her memories and sent back in her place.

And I am a genetically engineered human bomb.

Lia Johansen was created for only one purpose: to slip onto the strategically placed New Sol Space Station and explode. But her mission goes to hell when her clock malfunctions, freezing her countdown with just two minutes to go. With no Plan B, no memories of her past, and no identity besides a name stolen from a dead POW, Lia has no idea what to do next. Her life gets even more complicated when she meets Michael Sorenson, the real Lia’s childhood best friend.

Drawn to Michael and his family against her better judgment, Lia starts learning what it means to live and love, and to be human. It is only when her countdown clock begins sporadically losing time that she realizes even duds can still blow up. If she wants any chance at a future, she must find a way to unlock the secrets of her past and stop her clock. But as Lia digs into her origins, she begins to suspect there’s far more to her mission and to this war, than meets the eye. With the fate of not just a space station but an entire empire hanging in the balance, Lia races to find the truth before her time— literally—runs out.