This is the second book of the Council of AIs, but each book is a self-contained story arc and should be enjoyable without the previous volumes.

'This mind is a disposable placeholder. We'll delete it and install something useful in the body when alpha testing is complete.'

Ninety-five-year-old Carol Weaver is taken to New Zealand by her husband to undertake an experimental rejuvenation procedure. Billionaire Nick Laird is generously offering free travel to his advanced cybernetic and space exploration command centre for anyone who wishes to be young again.

When Carol wakes after the procedure, she discovers that she is an uploaded mind in an android body – and the real Carol is dead. She's now a piece of equipment, owned by Laird, that looks exactly like Laird's ex-girlfriend, Ruth Sharpe.

Carol must find a way to escape Laird's control and stop him from capturing Ruth, uploading her mind into Carol's body – and killing her.