2040

<p><strong>In 2040 artificial intelligence changes everything-including picking the new president of the United States.</strong></p><p></p><p>Michael Knightsbridge shouldn't be president. Two years ago he was a nobody-dead-end government job failed relationships going nowhere. Then he volunteered for a dark matter experiment at Berkeley that changed him. Gave him confidence. Ambition. A future with the woman he loves. Within months he was running for president.</p><p></p><p>But Michael isn't working alone. During that experiment something else awakened-an intelligence vast sophisticated and silicon-based. It shares his consciousness. Guides his decisions. Amplifies his abilities. Together they're unstoppable.</p><p></p><p>They need to be.</p><p></p><p>A catastrophic sleeping sickness is striking randomly across the globe. Victims fall into waking comas-bodies alive minds consumed. Millions are dying. No one knows where it came from or how to stop it.</p><p></p><p>As Michael races to save humanity he must trust an intelligence he doesn't fully understand protect the woman who believes in him and answer an impossible question:</p><p></p><p><strong>Is his success his own-or something else's? And does it even matter?</strong></p><p></p><p><em>A philosophical thriller about consciousness and identity power and partnership and the price of saving a world that doesn't know what's really controlling it.</em></p>