Toronto, 2058. A future without death, where life is cheap—and memory all that matters.

Finsbury Gage should be dead. He and his wife were victims of a freak car accident, smeared across the highway by a crazed bit-head piloting a stolen urban assault vehicle. Luckily for Fin, a Second Skyn recovery team snatched his mind from his ruined body moments before it faded forever. They declared his wife unrecoverable at the scene.

Six months later, with his salvaged thoughts uploaded to a custom bioSkyn replacement body, Fin was welcomed back into his life as a Detective with the Toronto Police Service. But all he could see was the face of the man who killed his wife—a split second of memory, locked in his mind.

In less than a month he was dead again, his memories lost, reportedly working as a hitman for a notorious bithead terrorist.

Now, Finsbury has restored from the brain bank yet again, but this time on a cold slab in a dingy basement skyn shop. He's wearing a stranger's face and a body built for speed, and his wife's death is the last thing he can remember. He's hiding under an assumed name, somehow wanted for a murder he doesn't remember committing—and as if all that weren't enough, a mysterious woman says they're in love and refuses to leave his side, while a venegeful superintelligence wants them both erased.

Finsbury doesn't know what to believe, or who he became, and the truth of his lost time lies hidden in a dangerous underworld of jacked-up brains and superhuman bodies. Will he discover his innocence, or come face-to-face with the monster inside him?

Second Skyn is the first book in the Lost Time series, a mind-bending sci-fi noir in the spirit of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, and Neuromancer. If you love your sci-fi relentless and armed with twists, this is the series you've been looking for.

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This book contains material previously published as Lost Time: Part 1 [Second Skyn] and Part 2 [Headspace]. If you're all caught up with the first trilogy (previously parts 1 - 5), jump ahead to the next chapter in Fin's story in the new Lost Time Book 4: Winter Overrun, coming in August.