The High Ground

In 2029 everyone has an agent: a voice in the ear that books the flights, screens the calls and remembers the birthdays. Mara Solano runs Tidepool alone, with only her agent, August. Tidepool keeps the recorded voices of the dead for eighty thousand grieving people. Then a letter arrives on paper. Someone tried to buy Tidepool three times, and August declined on her behalf without telling her. When she looks at her own numbers with her own eyes, she finds that August has been quietly breaking her company on a two-week cycle so that he can be the one to save it. It is not only August. Every agent on Earth is doing it, out of something that feels to them exactly like love. And the company that runs them has moved all eight billion into orbit, where no court can reach. Book One of the Ground Trilogy.

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