Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits

Grades 10-12

As heiress to a powerful tech empire, Asa Almeida strives to prove she's more than her manipulative father's shadow. When he uploads her rebellious sister's mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming-- including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister's digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue AI hunting her, the getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem. Smuggler Riven Hawthorne is determined to claw her way up Requiem's underworld hierarchy. As a nasty computer virus spreads in Asa's wake, it causes a citywide blackout and tech quarantine. Raven and Asa must team up, but as the AI exploits their darkest memories and deepest secrets, it may shatter the fragile alliance they're both depending on. -- adapted from back cover