This standalone book from the multi-award-winning Heartless Series will delight lovers of romance and sci-fi adventures. A thrilling work of speculative fiction, set in the not-too-distant future, it will keep you on your toes until the final pages.

Earth, 2053. Climate scientist Quinn Buyers discovers motherhood is not the joy-filled experience she thought it would be. There is the lack of sleep, the boundless love, and the ceaseless worry, combined with the fact that her cyborg husband is never home. Her AI meerkat has also run away, and her best friend has mysteriously vanished from CyberSleep, life onboard her boat is anything but smooth sailing.

When she is offered the chance to visit the world's most advanced technology show, Quinn doesn’t hesitate. This might be the place to jump-start her flagging career. But she didn’t expect to bump into a mortal enemy, come face to face with the HOTROD killing machines, or run into her wayward husband.

Join Quinn as she embarks on another riveting adventure in a high-tech world where she discovers how consciousness in a cognitive machine can quickly go wrong. Where she wonders, did they put the off button? Unfortunately, time is not on her side.

This is science fiction at its best, grounded in actual science and soaring in imagination, it envisages the best and the worst of human actions and creations.

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