The glass wall was opaque at the moment, preventing me from seeing him.

Jacobs was, I was sure, watching on the monitors in the observation room. Jacobs’s voice sounded over the intercom in warning. There was no way he’d actually get close enough to use them, even if he didn’t know that. “That, uh, I’m supposed to subdue you by any means necessary.” He produced a pair of clear zip ties from his pocket, a prop provided by Jacobs or the techs. He hadn’t come in farther than was necessary for the door to close behind him. I didn’t see a weapon on him, but I suspected that nervous twitch was him wishing he had one. He shifted his weight from foot to foot, his fingers tapping against his leg. “What else did they tell you?” I asked Joe. I had a hard time imagining Jacobs deigning to meet and greet the human being he’d brought in to serve as a guinea pig. “They told me you’re dangerous,” Joe blurted, surprising me. I’d survive long enough to see my personal mission through, but that was it.

Fortunately I didn’t expect the rest of my life to be all that long.

It would haunt me for the rest of my life. Extended eye contact with an unknown quantity (me) while locked in a small cell in a secret lab made them downright jumpy, it seemed.īut if I was going to do this, I owed it to Joe to remember his face. Extended eye contact made most full-blooded humans uncomfortable. He swallowed hard and shifted beneath my gaze. Freckles stood out as dark splotches against the pale skin of his nose and cheeks. He was about a foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier than me, though his green fatigues bagged loosely around him, like he was playing dress-up.

His reddish blond hair was cut short, buzzed on the sides. PRIVATE JOSEPH “JOE” ZADOWSKI WAS young, maybe only four or five years older than me. With heart-pounding action, and plenty of surprises, the gripping conclusion to Stacey Kade's Project Paper Doll series delivers a powerful finish that will keep fans hooked to the very end.Yes, you, standing (or sitting) right there. With Zane gone she has nothing left to lose. They destroyed all that she holds dear, including Zane Bradshaw, the one person she trusted and cared for the most-the person she was forced to leave behind, bleeding and alone.Īs her plan takes shape Ariane will need to depend on, now more than ever, the other side of her heritage-the cold, calculated instincts born from her alien DNA. She is prepared to die if it means taking down those involved in Project Paper Doll. Now she must participate in the upcoming trials a deadly competition pitting her against other alien hybrids, each representing a rival corporation.īut Ariane is no one’s weapon. Jacobs, head of the research facility that created her. After being on the run, Ariane Tucker finds herself back where she started-under the cruel control of Dr.

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