Jamie Duggins is dead.

Theo Fletcher knows that. He was there when Jamie fell from the clifftop, seconds before Theo could confess his love.

But that doesn't stop him from doing something he knows he shouldn't, in the depths of his late father's basement lab.

Piece by piece, he brings Jamie back to life, with the help of their experimental neural interface and a 3D printer.

He might have synthetic skin, but he looks like Jamie and thinks like Jamie.

So why isn't that enough?

As Theo falls deeper in love with the boy he rebuilt, a high-ranking military officer arrives with questions about his father's secret research, and a dangerous interest in Theo's creation. Worse still, Theo's mother might know more than she's letting on.

But Theo lost Jamie once... This time, he'll do anything to keep him.