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Reasons Cara has died: - The emperor of the wasteland wanted to make an example of her mother and started with her - One of her mother's boyfriends wanted to cover up what he did to her - She was born addicted and her lungs didn't develop - She was left alone, and a stranger came along - The runners came for a neighbour and she was in the way - The runners came for her mother and she was in the way - The runners came for her boyfriend and she was in the way - The runners came for no one, serving nothing but chaos and fear, and she was what they found - Her mother left her alone in a shed while she worked or got high and she fell asleep alone and hungry and forever Reasons Cara has lived: - She doesn't know but there are 8. The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara . Of the 382 realities that have been unlocked, Cara is dead in all but eight But on this earth, she survived. Born in the wastelands where if a basic lack of resources didn't kill you, violence would, Cara is happy to reap the benefits of a job and a safe place in the city to call home. But when one of her eight remaining doppelgangers dies under mysterious circumstances, Cara is plunged into a new world with an old secret. What she discovers will connect her past and future in ways she never could have imagined - and reveal her own role in a plot that endangers not just her world, but the entire multiverse.