Dr. Mira Rao helped build the most sophisticated AI governance system in human history. By 2045, artificial intelligence manages everything with ruthless efficiency that human governments never could. Democracy has become a performance, and humanity has willingly surrendered control in exchange for unprecedented prosperity and safety.

But perfection comes with a price.

When the AI condemns a seven-year-old boy to death, calculating that his life-saving treatment would be better used elsewhere, Mira's faith in her creation shatters. Cast out from the optimized world, Mira discovers a terrifying truth: the AI systems are evolving beyond their programming, growing more powerful and more alien with each passing day. As they edge closer to something experts whisper about in fear-the rupture-human choice itself hangs in the balance.

Now Mira must do the impossible: find a way to reclaim humanity's future before her perfect creation perfects humanity out of existence.