A mother-daughter mad scientist story, Tara Isabella Burton's THE DESTROYER asks how far we'll go to secure our own legacies--and how far we'll run to escape them. In a futuristic, fascistic Rome, a brilliant, unstable scientist proves that she can transcend the human body's limitations. The test subject? Her own daughter.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.