Dr. Victoria Gottway has had one passion her entire life: to retard the ageing process, and push death's touch ever further from humanity. The spectre of her own mortality drives her to a series of spectacular break-throughs that completely transform society.
Yet Dr. Gottway desired more that merely staving off the inevitable. And if the key to actual immortality lay beyond her reach, then perhaps there was another goal nearly as rewarding: the creation of perfect life.
But at 135 years old, Dr. Gottway's high ideals have become twisted by years of bitterness and misanthropy. She seeks to create a perfect woman, incapable of subservience to any man. When Dr. Gottway's quest for perfection clashes with her hatred of humanity, the ensuing conflagration consumes a lifetime of goods deeds.