Ya no es nadie y tampoco desea volver con su rica familia que, aparentemente, se ha negado a pagar el rescate exigido por los secuestradores.

En esa innominada y desesperante ciudad europea del futuro, donde transcurre la acción, Spanner una pirata informática que ejerce la prostitución, será quien la recoja y ayude, introduciéndola en el submundo del robo de datos y en la prostitución, al tiempo que se convierte en su amante.

Lore, no obstante, decide tomar en sus manos las riendas de su propia vida. Abandona a Spanner y, adoptando la identidad de una persona muerta, encuentra trabajo en una de las grandes plantas de reciclado de aguas residuales.

Un duro trabajo que, precisamente, depende de las bacterias que fabrica y vende la rica familia Van de Oest a la que Lore ha pertenecido.

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep.

Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep–and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives.

Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine.

As she risks death to uncover the women’s biological secret, she finds that she, too, is changing–and realizes that not only has she found a home on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction. . . .

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide.

Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed.