This paperback includes a teaser of The Impossibility of Tomorrow, the next book in the Incarnation series, as well as exclusive content that reveals Seraphina’s back story. Will Sera have to give up the one thing that’s eluded her for centuries: true love? If she stays in one place for long, she puts herself-and the people she’s grown to care for-in great danger. And she has even more to worry about: Cyrus is chasing her. But she can never kiss Noah, because for her to touch lips with a human would mean the human’s death. And soon it’s clear the feelings are returned. Sera also falls for the boy next door, Noah. For the first time, Sera falls in love with the life of the person she’s inhabiting. Sera has just landed in the body of a girl named Kailey who was about to die in a car accident. Yet she doesn’t want to die, so she finds young people who are on the brink of death, and inhabits their bodies. Sera ran away from Cyrus years ago, when she realized that what they were doing-taking the lives of innocent people-was wrong. Seraphina has been alive since the Middle Ages, when her boyfriend, Cyrus, managed to perfect a method of alchemy that lets them swap bodies with any human being. People say “love never dies”.but love might be the death of Seraphina. In the first novel of the Incarnation series, the immortal Serephina grapples with a wrenching truth: Falling in love might mean succumbing to death.
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