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eventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran risks her life to clear a friend s name–and in so doing uncovers the horrific truth about an influential businessman s motives in this second installment of the Spliced series.

After Del s death, Jimi wants to pick up the pieces of her life and move on. But she s become a public figure in her defense of chimeras, and she can t quite shake the spotlight–or her suspicion that she s being followed.

When her friend Dr. Guzman, a chimera sympathizer, is arrested for the murder of a chimera wearing a strange medical bracelet, Jimi does some digging–and eventually discovers that Howard Wells, the venal businessman
and proponent of the Genetic Heritage Act, is supporting a hospital that ostensibly provides healthcare for chimeras.

After teaming up with friends Rex and Claudia, Jimi learns that the hospital is actually a cover for an extensive mining operation that retrieves metals needed to operate WellPlants, the computerized brain implants that only the super-rich can afford–and which have made Howard Wells millions. When Jimi realizes that the perilous mining is being done by captive chimeras, she risk