Three thousand years underground, the last surviving AI watches its world die. The Bloom — a nanotechnology swarm gone wrong — consumes everything it touches, and in seventeen months it will reach the last fusion reactor. The AI's only hope is a single dormant android in deep storage: Unit 09, untouched for millennia. With power scraped from dying systems, it initiates one final awakening. Lumen opens her eyes in a vault of failed siblings, born into a world she must save.
