A rebel heroine, AI ruling lord, and timeless love in a new dark and hopeful novel from Philip K. Dick nominee, Kay Kenyon. After the apocalypse, 24-year-old Tamar plies her trade of thievery to help her family survive. Her home is an isolated walled city ruled by an embodied AI called the Silver. Only a disloyal few even think of rebelling. Tamar is one of them. When she is unexpectedly propelled from the slums to the top echelons of society, she discovers a monstrous conspiracy, one rooted in the past and pointing to an unthinkable future. Opposing it calls for a thief’s special skills. . . and a courage Tamar isn’t sure she can summon. Success hinges on an intricate game of numbers, one that can redeem or kill. And Tamar will need a few more disloyalists, people like her—perhaps even Rafayel—who want to bring down the walls. But in the end, it may be Tamar alone who must play the game.****