Marie Whittaker

In the wreckage of civilization, the most rebellious act was friendship. TR.8C is an engineered soldier - one of eighteen TR units deployed to alien worlds so humanity's last survivors can find a new home. She isn't supposed to form bonds. She isn't supposed to grieve. Feelings are a defect. Friendship is a flaw. But when her closest companion doesn't make it back to the ship, TR.8C does the one thing a TR unit should never do. She goes back. In a dying future where humanity's survival depends on soldiers who were never meant to be human, TR.8C discovers that the most dangerous thing she carries isn't her weapon - it's her heart. TR.8C is a science fiction survival story about loyalty, identity, and what it means to be human when you were never supposed to be.