Authors N.K. Jemisin & Mac Walters bring us the tale of Cora Harper as she joins the Andromeda Initiative. The Andromeda Initiative is set to set sail for the Andromeda galaxy in six months but before any of that can happen the base code to the systems main AI has been stolen and it's up to Cora Harper a former Alliance marine to steal it back. As she dose this on her first assignment she is spaced by the mercenary whom she hired to help get the base code back from a rival company called Home Away. But it's thanks to the help of her integrated AI Sam-E that she can survive that. But after she is recused she tracks down where the base code has been and who is selling it only to find out that they had been killed and that the base code was taken to a hidden Alliance facility. At that facility she runs into a rampant AI that uses augmented humans to destroy the base and all the personnel that live and work there. This is a great science fiction AI mystery book and I'm looking forward to reading the next two books in this series.