Conquest of Life

Jievette Carpenter, heiress from the star colonies. Widowed survivor of year-long captivity by savage alien humanoids. Kris-4, a reclaimed man. Immortal. Enslaved in body and mind by the immortality process. The Playmates, the hedonistic social elite of Earth. The Body Salvage Company is the number one producer of reclaimed men-dead who have been preserved and reprogrammed. Their products never sicken or age. They never grow old. And they never again die. They are the once-human slaves of the Playmates. When Jievette inherits Kris-4 as part of her aunt's estate, she determines to help him regain his own mind and his own freedom. She's prepared to defy the power of the Playmates to save him. Perhaps if she can heal his spirit, she can begin to repair her own fractured soul.