title: Symbiont
author: McCann, Melissa
description: What Grows Around, Comes Around Megastar holoplay personality Emma Sloan teeters on the edge of death after a freak studio accident burns over eighty percent of her body. In a last-ditch effort to save her life, desperate doctors implant her burned skin with a bioengineered symbiotic organism. Emma isn't the first person to be implanted with a new skin. When the other symbionts break out of the hospital and escape, Emma is forced to help track them down or be destroyed like a lab animal. But her new skin has survival imperatives of its own, and it is more powerful than its designers intended. Emma isn't going to be easy to kill.