Spliced (First Edition.)

Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what's about to happen to her best friend, Del.

Over the years, their friendship has been evolving - and Jimi is starting to wonder if they could become more than friends.

But Del is obsessed with becoming a chimera: a person with animal features, achieved by splicing animal genes into their own DNA.

It's a dangerous and controversial process, provided illegally by back-alley doctors called genies.

The dramatic physical changes chimeras go through have scared lawmakers into drafting legislation to declare chimeras officially non-human - taking away all protections under the law.

When Del goes missing, Jimi is desperate to find him before he alters himself forever.

To save him, Jimi must risk her life - all while knowing that if getting spliced is the choice Del has made, it means he's leaving her behind forever.