What is Corpus Aegis? This mysterious...novel? I've been working on? The book that stands a shot at getting me noticed, at getting me famous? The book that...hopefully will bring home the prize in the Random House First Young Adult Novel competition?

But what does that tell you? That I'm writing a book?

I'm here to tell you what this book is all about.

>A mad corporation's quest for eternal youth.

>The victims they create.

>A severed heart.

>An Achilles Heel.

>The livelihood of a god.

>The strength of a man.

>The battle between the heart and the mind.

>Brainwashing.

>Matilda "Alice" Walker.

>Immortality.

>Safety shattered.

>Genocide.

>Carlos.

>Love.

>A sentinentality.

>Suicide.

>Depression.

>Insula Vita

>Hope.

>The Third Voice.

>An army.

>Helen.

>Kidnapping.

>Tokyo.

>A knife in the chest.

>Cyrus Wright.

>A transplant.

>The weight of the world.

>Chad.

>Mild.

>The encore.

>Biological weapon.
>And, most important of them all--the sinister corporation known only by the name..."Corpus Aegis."