num_pages: 366
description: Orphan Black meets Inception: Two formerly conjoined sisters are ensnared in a murderous plot involving psychoactive drugs shared dreaming organized crime and a sinister cult.Raised in the closed cult of Manas Hearth and denied access to modern technology conjoined sisters Taema and Tila dream of a life beyond the walls of the compound. When the heart they share begins to fail the twins escape to San Francisco where they are surgically separated and given new artificial hearts. From then on they pursue lives beyond anything they could have previously imagined.Ten years later Tila returns one night to the twins home in the city terrified and covered in blood just before the police arrive and arrest her for murderthe first homicide by a civilian in decades. Tila is suspected of involvement with the Ratel a powerful crime syndicate that deals in the flow of Zeal a drug that allows violent minds to enact their darkest desires in a terrifying dreamscape. Taema is given a proposition: go undercover as her sister and perhaps save her twins life. But during her investigation Taema discovers disturbing links between the twins past and their present. Once unable to keep anything from each other the sisters now discover the true cost of secrets.
language: English
title: False Hearts
publisher: Macmillan