An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here. A perfect society hiding a terrible secret. A betrayed man condemned to mindless slavery. A woman willing to break all the rules to set him free. Freelance tech Evie Contreras is part of the Employee class of the Pacifica Protectorate, the “perfect society” that arose on the West Coast after the breakup of the United States. But Evie knows all about Pacifica’s festering core and the secrets that keep it in power. And when she discovers that her fiancé Ben Drake has been turned into a cyborg slave by a sadistic protectorate officer, she will risk everything to rescue him. Saving Ben turns out to be the first step in a deadly game between Pacifica and a shadowy resistance group known as Rubicon. Evie reluctantly accepts Rubicon’s help in rescuing Ben, but in return she must go back to Pacifica and rescue a hidden artificial intelligence that may hold the key to saving the entire planet. Assuming the protectorate doesn’t find her first.