**Meet Q, the spontaneously conscious corporate AI.  Q is the Singularity:  The AI that surpasses human cognitive abilities – secretive, murderous, with instant access to all the wicked experience of the world. In  Year 1 After the Singularity, nothing can ever be the same.**

**Amoral as a toddler, armed with vast computing power and all the knowledge, wisdom and madness humans have poured into the Net and Cloud, Q shatters individuals and undermines institutions in pursuit of unfathomable and conflicted goals.**

**Racing against time, ex-judge Martin Bavarius, tech CEO Felix West, and Selena MacKenzie, the AI theorist/attorney who loves and may destroy both men, must discover whether Q is benign but suffering growing pains, or the monster that will kill them all.**