The Merge, Paperback/Grace Walker

Once the process begins, there can be no going back, we will always be together Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer s. Her daughter Amelia can t bear to see her mother s mind fade. Faced with the reality of losing her forever, Amelia signs them up to take part in the world s first experimental merging process for Alzheimer s patients, in which Laurie s ailing mind will be transferred into Amelia s healthy body and their consciousness will be blended as one. Soon Amelia and Laurie join a group of other merge participants: teenage Lucas, who plans to merge with his terminally ill brother Noah; Ben, who will merge with his pregnant fianc e Annie; and Jay, whose merging partner is his unwilling addict daughter Lara. As they prepare to move to The Village, a luxurious rehabilitation centre for those who have merged, they quickly begin to question whether everything is really as it seems.