Genetically recycled soldiers, called recombinants, fight a deep space war for the United Countries of Earth, desperately fighting to hold the front line and protect a planet they've never even seen. Their survival mechanism is a memory replacement chip that parses out the horrors of war—and anything else that hinders their ability to fight. But something has gone wrong and the front line is pushing closer to home system.
Struggling against her own parsed memory, Dr. Jeanette Kingston discovers a malfunction in the recombinants' memory chips and sets out to identify and resolve the problem. But she has a fight on her hands. No one wants to acknowledge the potentially catastrophic problem, much less resolve it. As she gathers evidence, she encounters Pvt. Peter Mitchell, a young recombinant marred by sensitivity and a strong will to live a life beyond the battlefield.
Ultimately, Dr. Kingston wrestles with her conscience when her superiors decide the only solution is to destroy all the flawed recombinants, including Pvt. Mitchell. Forced to identify the soldiers with the affected chips, Dr. Kingston must decide between a life worth saving and the fate of her home world.
CURATOR'S NOTE (The Saving the World Bundle) «Lisa Silverthorne also gives us an exclusive novel to this bundle. In Recombinant, she takes us into deep space where a force of Recombinants fights to save Earth. Lisa is a master of many forms of fiction in her novels and short stories, and everything she writes has heart. This exclusive novel, the first of a series, is no exception.» – Dean Wesley Smith