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Jessica Castellano was built to be perfect. At Whitmore Academy, perfection is mandatory. Students learn how to cry on cue, how to smile at the right moment, how to become exactly what their future families want. Deviations are logged. Emotions are calibrated. Identity is a system to be optimized. Jessica excels at it. Then she discovers the truth. She isn't a student. She's a replacement-engineered to take the place of a child who died. Given the same face. The same traits. A carefully edited version of a life that already ended. And Whitmore exists to make sure no one notices the difference. As fragments of someone else's memories begin bleeding into her own, Jessica does the unthinkable: she starts breaking the rules. Tiny deviations at first. Messy handwriting. Missed cues. Questions no one is supposed to ask. The system notices. What follows is a slow-burn psychological descent into surveillance, identity fracture, and manufactured humanity-where being ""good"" might mean erasing yourself, and being real might get you deleted entirely. Because at Whitmore Academy, autonomy is instability. And instability is grounds for deactivation. A sharp, unsettling science fiction thriller about grief, identity, control, and what it actually means to be human-perfect for readers who love cerebral dystopias, quiet horror, and stories that crawl under your skin and stay there.

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