Three-hundred years after the AI uprising, humans and synthetics live together as equal entities under Republic law. Human Bette and her synthetic partner Minv make their living in the gray spaces of that law. Bette’s brilliant technical ability and her gift for intuition, combined with Minv’s warrior instincts and raw processing power, give them the perfect skillset for solving the types of problems that require discretion—something The Republic’s more affluent citizens hold in high regard.Somebody or something may be killing human NeuroVault Corp. employees. After the fifth “accidental” death in a handful of months, Bette-Minv, LLC. is contracted to investigate how the victims may be related, and expose the responsible party. But as Bette and Minv close in on what they believe to be a serial killer with a penchant for human victims, they stumble upon something unimaginable.