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by G. Michael Smith (Author)
She can slow time to zero.
She can rewrite reality.
And someone wants to live inside her body.
Jayne Wu is thirteen years old - and already dangerous.
As an apprentice fixer inside the artificial biomes that keep humanity alive, she has a secret: she can enter a mental state she calls the bubble - where time nearly stops and every outcome can be calculated... and controlled.
But Jayne isn't just gifted.
She was engineered.
Hidden inside her brain is something unprecedented - a mind capable of sustaining two consciousnesses at once. To the powerful and the dying, she isn't a girl.
She's a vessel.
When a shadow network known as the Forevers begins hunting her, Jayne is pulled into a conspiracy built on stolen identities, erased lives, and a terrifying promise: immortality by overwrite.
And they've already proven it works.
Captured and strapped into a neural transfer system, Jayne faces the ultimate violation - her mind being erased and replaced in real time.
But inside the bubble... she fights back.
Because if she loses, she won't just die.
She'll still be alive - watching someone else live her life.
And what's coming next may be even worse.
A cosmic threat is approaching Earth.
The Forevers are only the beginning.
And Jayne may be the only one who can stop what's coming.
MINDSTORMS is a high-concept sci-fi thriller perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Neal Stephenson, and Black Mirror - blending cutting-edge neuroscience, identity warfare, and a relentless fight for control of the human mind.
