The file said he died on December 16, 1993the day he was born.

Now the glass canister on Marcus Lawrences chest is empty. Whatever was inside it is inside him. Memories that belong to a stranger surface one at a time, and something in him wakes that he cant yet control.

The thaw is coming, and the dead are running. Across the frozen north, giants stand in the snow and the surf: Colossi, the ones who never survived what Marcus did. No human lives inside them.

But Marcus isnt the only one who survived.

At the edge of the Aleutians, a pale giant with a blazing blue heart comes down a mountain, tears a Colossus apart in the surf, and walks out of the water a woman. Her name is Nika Hale. She has mastered everything Marcus fears in himself. And she has a rifle pointed at his chest.

Hunted by a federal unit that wants a cure from him, and by a private company that wants what lives inside him, Marcus follows the trail to the place where PROJECT 999 never really ended.

Something is waiting for him there. It has been waiting a very long time.