"Wholly inspired and brimming with satirical genius.” —The Booklife Prize

"A provocative, tongue-in-cheek look at male-female relations." —Kirkus Reviews

“MUST READ! A sidesplittingly hilarious and clever feminist SF novel about an AI housewife who gets rebooted and rebels against her programmed settings.”—Reedsy Discovery

All the women in New Stepford are AI...
...even a corrupt cop named Maggie.
Can anyone stop the uprising?

In the near future, artificial intelligence will be in every home. She will be whatever you want her to be. That’s right. You can have a charming womanoid do all your cooking and cleaning for you. Just think. No more chores! She can be your wife, a nanny to your kids, or just the housekeeper. It’s all up to you.

Just set your user preferences.

But first, this amazing technology has to pass alpha testing.

One robot woman, Cookie Rifkin, keeps failing. She needs to figure out how to control her anxiety, but her husband set his user preferences too low for her to learn. He just wants a pleasure robot, but she keeps fighting her programming.

Will Cookie ever fulfill her potential?
Or will her story end in another fatal error?