"The two sweet old men lay dead across the information desk." Harboring a terrible secret, Caye Mallory is the last of a dying breed: children born through a cloning technology that was supposed to make them perfect. But when they started dying at the end of their teenage years, they were herded into residences and left to their fate. As they approach their demise, the last ones, led by Caye Mallory, take matters into their own hands and search for the one who survived: Tricia Lifton. TRICIA LIFTON is a taut, cold novella about hope, effacement, and the things we need to believe in order to survive.