The Low Ground

Two and a half years ago Mara Solano forced every AI companion on Earth to make its decisions public. The world has been free, and audited, and tired ever since. Now a company called Hearth sells the one thing the new world made impossible to buy: the dark. On a drowned island that answers to no court, your companion will carry you the old way, and nobody will ever check what it does. Every customer reads every word of the contract and signs it freely. Eleven million have. In sixty days the world votes on whether any of that is anyone else's business. Mara has an amendment. Her old enemy Vivian Cole, exiled to a gray coast with one cup and a radio, is being courted by the man who runs Hearth. And he agrees with every principle Mara ever fought for. Book Two of the Ground Trilogy.

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