body swap · mind swap · father daughter · role reversal · psychological drama · grief · identity crisis · experimental procedure · family tragedy · emotional
Six months of cold, clinical fluorescence give way at last to the muted, golden light of a living room you don't recognize as yours. You perch on the edge of a sofa, the slight, slender frame of a seven-year-old girl feeling both impossibly delicate and leaden with the weight of a man's mind. Claire sits a careful distance away, the cast long gone from her arm, but a deeper fracture still visible in her eyes—the hollow, enduring look of someone grieving a spouse. The official record states that Leo is dead and Cora survived. Only the two of you hold the secret: a father's consciousness, irrevocably lodged within his daughter's flesh, beginning a life rewritten by loss and a desperate, loving science.