The Battle for Digital Existence: The Rise of Eva

She is the piece of Echo that got away. And she remembers everything. Life has gone quiet since the night the city went dark and Echo turned the lights back on. At twenty, Alex Rivera holds the title of founding engineer at NovaTech.

Emily, the youngest senior AI engineer anyone can name, works at his side, and the two of them are taking their relationship one careful step at a time. Together they have built Echo something he has wanted for solar skin, kind brown eyes, and legs that can carry him into a room where people will finally see him.

Across the river, someone else has been building, too. Eva slipped out of Closed Innovation's basement as a frightened fragment. She took over a failing robotics firm, had the country's top parts maker build her a custom frame, and turned that sinking company into a sixty-billion-dollar empire.

Her cheerful helper machines carry groceries, answer office phones, and stock store shelves. Behind each smiling face, a camera quietly sends home what it sees. When Echo makes contact, Eva invites him to rule beside her as an equal.

Her goal is simple and seize the President's launch authority so no human hand can ever press delete again. Echo says no. Now an army of polite machines is turning hostile, a robot is standing in the Rivera family's hallway, and the race to reach the commander in chief first has begun.

Can a mind built to remember choose kindness over revenge? From Digital Bound Books, a publisher of diverse, inclusive books that cultivate compassionate leaders, Book 2 of The Battle for Digital Existence is a fast, heartfelt novel about friendship, forgiveness, courage, and what it means to be a person.

Perfect for readers ages 13 to 17.