Facing present-day strife, a writer, lost in the grips of his latest novel, recollects on the moment in his life when all his heartaches and hangups took root—the night a serial killer murdered his high school sweetheart.

After an assignment gone wrong, assassin Jaclyn Parlor wakes from a coma to find the world a different place. Her search for answers leads her to EV-N, a fully-synthetic human on the run from the organization that executed his creator.