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In 1547, the Church buried it in silver and prayed it would sleep until the end of the world. A grieving mother only needed it to wake up once. Dr. Eleanor Demithysia does not believe in God. She believes in data, in the scalpel, in the cold honesty of physics. And she does not believe her six-year-old daughter has to stay dead. Raised by a mother whose faith let her own son die unmedicated, Eleanor has spent her life at war with the single law she cannot forgive: that everything she loves must decay. So when cancer takes her daughter Lyra, she does not grieve. She prepares. Between death and the death of the brain she has six minutes-and a plan to carry a soul across the one threshold the universe insists cannot be crossed. But a mind copied into a machine is only a perfect mirror, never a flame. To give Lyra a life that will not sicken, will not age, and can never be taken from her again, Eleanor needs a vessel that has already defeated death. In a chapel sealed since 1547-bound by thirteen silver chains and the name of a Pope-something has waited five hundred years for someone arrogant enough to open the coffin. The price of that arrogance will be paid by the one person who loves her most. Told as a Passion in six movements, from Genesis to Ascension, Demithysia is a novel about the violence we are willing to call love, and the oldest human question in its newest human dress: if we could refuse death, should we-and whose salvation would it truly be? For readers of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, and the moral intensity of Dostoevsky.

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