Shy coder Emma and irrepressible engineer Marti are brilliant graduate students who are less brilliant with romance. When Marti suggests combining their work to create the ideal artificial lover, Emma has... doubts. But when the digital personality she's developed merges with Marti's robotics work, the singular entity known as Bob is born.

Bob could change everything—not just for Emma and Marti's love lives, but for science. As long as a skeevy techbro billionaire doesn't ruin everything...

The debut novel by journalist and playwright Liz Shannon Miller, How to Build a Robot (Boyfriend) is a comic romance determined to prove to John Hughes that being weird and horny for your creation isn't exclusively for dudes. Learn more at robot-boyfriend.com.