Inheritance

Reese and David are no longer ordinary teenagers. The Imria, an extraterrestrial race that has been visiting Earth in secret for decades, adapted them with alien DNA, and that change has made both of them targets.

The US government wants them. So do the Imria, and so does a mysterious corporation willing to go to any length to gain an advantage over the aliens. Reese and David are caught in a web of conspiracies where every side has its own plans for them.

Reese has a personal problem as well. She loves David, but she has not resolved her feelings for her ex-girlfriend, Amber, who is Imrian. Her choice between the two cannot stay private. It bears on what happens to humanity, on where the Imria fit in the future, and on the inheritance that she and David will carry into the universe.

This is a science-fiction thriller for young adults and the sequel to Adaptation. It pairs a plot of secrets and pursuit with attention to adolescence, sexuality and what it means to be treated as the other, with a bisexual-leaning romantic tension at its center.