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In a world where machines create most music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can she do? When she loses the only job she’s ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued, and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels whose values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI-generated music, takes an interest in the group of rebels and wants them stopped. When someone from Alice’s past reenters her life, suddenly her world is turned upside down, and she’s forced to come to terms with her situation.

Alone and hurt, Alice is trying to pick up the pieces after the world crumbles around her. New York is just emerging from a devastating technological meltdown, and the authorities are blaming Alice. Just when she is feeling she can survive, she is jettisoned into a world she doesn’t recognize and questions her reality.

After the AI Copyright Act is repealed, megacorporations such as MuseFam increase the production of AI-generated music more than ever before. Robot production kicks into top gear, and they manufacture thousands each day. Recent legislation requires owners of all-human clubs to accept all patrons, including robots. Outraged Alice Parsons unites several all-human club owners. Soon Alice finds herself in a plot to eliminate the MuseFam problem once and for all.

When Alice lands a new job as a talent agent that caters to all-human rock and roll bands, her world is turned upside down when a mysterious man captures one of her friends and leaves a sinister calling card. As she investigates, a series of unexpected circumstances threatens to unravel the life she has so carefully built.

Wrongfully accused. Ruthlessly hunted. Fighting to survive. Thirteen-year-old Aiko Takahashi wakes in juvenile detention, burdened by guilt and accused of a crime she didn’t commit. But her captivity is no accident—it’s part of a ruthless game orchestrated by Malcolm, a shadowy figure obsessed with twisting her late mother’s research for his own personal gain. Her mother’s work promised to reshape humanity itself, and within Aiko lies the key.