A haunting sci-fi dystopian novel about love, identity, and what it means to be human.
In a future ruled by corporations and contracts, where your job determines your housing—and your survival—Lilly Case lives quietly, almost invisibly. A low-level employee, a dutiful daughter, and the girl raised in the shadow of her father’s greatest achievement: a prototype Droid named Satoshi.
Satoshi, the result of her father's dream to create a safe future for his daughter.
When a violent attack forces him to protect Lilly at a deadly cost, their lives are thrust into chaos. The company wants to contain him. The public wants to destroy him. And all Lilly wants… is to bring him home.
As the line between man and machine blurs, Lilly must confront her past, her mother’s betrayal, and her growing love for the one being the world insists is incapable of it. But Satoshi isn’t just a machine—he’s a friend. And someone will do anything to silence him forever.