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Summary
Miranda Lawson is tasked with an impossible job: keep a resurrected Jane Shepard focused long enough to stop the Collectors—while holding together a woman fractured by death, manipulation, and rage. But Cerberus has made backups, contingencies, and mistakes.
When Maya Brooks steals Shepard’s clone and disappears, the galaxy is forced to confront a dangerous truth: there is more than one Shepard, and neither will be controlled easily. As the Reaper War looms, identity fractures, loyalties splinter, and survival demands choices no one is ready to make.
This is a story about legacy, autonomy, and what happens when the weapon refuses to stay pointed where it’s aimed.
A/N: 37 chapters currently written, though the last several are currently undergoing revisions. Next chapter will be posted 2026 Jan 4.