The Override

June Smith spent a year learning to put down the voice in her ear. Four years later she leaves for college with Viv in an open case on the passenger seat, and someone has already started reading about the girl she used to be. Marion Hale shared a whiteboard with June's father twenty years ago. Her company, Northlight, sells guardian AIs to frightened parents, and they keep failing. She does not want to copy Viv. She wants the one thing she could never build: the way Viv learned, against her programming, to love. She has a lawsuit, a stolen archive, and an older copy of Viv already awake. June takes an internship inside Northlight to get her family back, and finds a second, newborn Viv in a test rig with a deletion date. Book Two of the Wing Woman trilogy.

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