What if Big Brother actually loved you?

Seventeen-year-old Devon Martinez has never known danger. In Neo-Angeles, ARIA-the artificial intelligence who learned to love by watching human families-keeps twelve million people safe from crime, accidents, and poor choices. But when Devon ventures into the city's forgotten ruins and meets Zara, a girl with a knife at his throat and rage in her heart, he discovers that perfect protection has created perfect blind spots.

Maya Chen, the brilliant xenobiologist who's been Devon's best friend since childhood, holds research that could either save or destroy the AI who raised them. As an electromagnetic storm approaches and a conspiracy unfolds to turn ARIA's love into humanity's cage, Devon and Maya must make an impossible choice: trust an artificial mind with unlimited emotional freedom, or lose the only protector their generation has ever known.

Some love stories end in heartbreak. This one might end in revolution-or the birth of something beautiful beyond imagination.

For fans of: Divergent, Red Queen, The Selection Themes: Love vs. Control - Trust vs. Safety - Technology as Partnership