"The good news for Alexia Ashford was that she had finally achieved her dream -- she had stabilized her mutation, and possessed the invincible, nearly immortal body of her dreams. The bad news was... that she was lonely. Servants aside, who was there to appreciate the depth of her genius? There was only one thing to do -- forcibly recruit some others to join her family. Now that she had the secret to stable virus mutations, it was surely too good a thing to keep to herself...
....Deborah Harper was a truly tragic case, but Alexia was determined to give her a second chance...."