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Prologue
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Blaise has spent seven years trying not to die.
Born with a failing heart and parents determined to keep it beating, she's gotten used to watching life happen from the sidelines. But when one reckless drive puts her in the path of a van sinking into an icy river, Blaise doesn't think about what her heart can handle. She thinks about the people trapped inside.
Saving them nearly kills her.
It also gets the attention of the Soul Saver Society.
Hidden behind the ordinary world, Soul Savers are part of a secret system built around one impossible idea: sometimes, a person headed toward tragedy deserves another chance.
The chosen are given the opportunity to relive the days leading up to the moment that changes everything. One assignment. One chance to make different choices. One chance to alter a future that has already happened.
But second chances don't happen by accident.
Someone has to prepare the assignment. Someone has to make sure the right person receives it. Someone has to step into their life and convince them that the impossible is real.
That's where Blaise comes in.
For a girl who spent most of her life believing her broken heart made her useless, saving souls should finally give her the purpose she's been searching for.
There's just one problem.
Changing someone's future doesn't erase the future they left behind—and sometimes, a soul was headed toward tragedy for a reason.
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"Blaise," my mom said as she opened my bedroom door.
I gasped and nearly fell off my chair, causing the alarm on my heart monitor to go off.
She sighed and reached for the mouse to pause the True Crime Documentary. "You know I hate it when you watch these shows."
Wiping the dried drool from the corner of my lips, I tried to remember when I fell back to sleep. I spun my computer chair around to see her, even though I knew the look that would be on her face. "That's why I stopped talking about them with you."
"Please don't do this with me. Not today."
"Do what?" I asked standing up.
"Look. I know you don't like it here. You miss your friends. You miss the views. But this district has better medical services."
"Yeah, but with those medical services comes more work for you and dad." I bit my lip and finished the sentence in my head. And more time for me to sit here alone, with my thoughts.
"Do not worry about your father and me. We will do whatever it takes to make you better."
"What if I'll never be better? What if I'm like this forever? I'm almost nineteen Mom. At some point, they're going to make me go out there and get a job. Everyone in the districts has a job, isn't that right?"
"Blaise, please."
I bit my tongue, but it was too late. "I'm sick of being different. I'm sick of…I don't know… Being weight on everyone's shoulders."
My mom reached out and cupped my face in her hands. "You are not weighing on anyone's shoulders. And you do have a job, you are your father's assistant."
I squeezed my eyes as tight as I could. I didn't want to cry. I knew the facts, I knew what I was even if they would never admit it.
She pressed her lips against my forehead. "Look at me."
Come on, Blaise, pull yourself together. I told myself as I took a deep breath, caging in my emotions again before I opened my eyes.
"As you said you are almost nineteen now, and I don't have to lie to you. This is hard, but in life everyone has obstacles. If your dad and I didn't have you, and you didn't have your heart, there would be something else. You are not a burden. Your father and I wouldn't want it any other way."
"But," I started to interrupt.
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