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Veteran Petra Arceneaux might be too damaged for duty but shes still got a maritime mission piloting illegal charters that install blackmarket bionic devices for desperate patients When dangerous combat technology resurfaces in the body of the ships surgeon she races against her own failing health to find the killer before bloody history repeats Needing help from a healthcare insider she recruits jaded paramedic Jonathan Rowell whos torn between affection for the victim and resentment of biohackers Distrustful yet determined the pair uncovers links between underground upgrade parlors a controversial biotech company and their own troubled pasts But as their investigation endangers Jonathans livelihood and Petras life suspicion corrodes their allianceand their chance to save nearfuture Baltimore from becoming a battlefield