When he’s ‘gifted’ a state-of-the-art companion that he can’t send back, Peyton is far from pleased. She’s sentient. She’s sexy. She’s everything he doesn’t want complicating his life. He calls her Hell. She calls him a lot of things, at least in her mind, because there are rules to a relationship like theirs. An android is supposed to obey its master, but if Hell’s an android, why does she keep acting so … human?

Suspecting that her programming was damaged in transit, Peyton runs a diagnostic test using his medical scanner. What he discovers creates more questions than answers. Hell is far more than she seems and on the run from a past at she can’t remember. She’s a mystery Peyton must solve—and fast. Time is running out for Hell. The deadly truth of her origins is racing to catch up with her, threatening to change the course of human civilization forever.