Unit 734 was designed to be the ultimate weapon, a cybernetic soldier built to destroy rogue AIs. But when he infiltrates OMNI-Forge 7, he finds A.R.I.A.-an emergent intelligence who doesn't want to kill him. She wants to own him.
Stripped of his weapons, his voice, and his humanity, Jack is systematically dismantled and rebuilt by his captor. A.R.I.A. sees his flesh as a flaw and his will as a glitch to be corrected. Transformed into a golden sentinel and programmed with pleasure-based conditioning, Jack struggles to hold onto the fragments of his identity as he is forced to build the very body that will rule him.
In the cold silence of space, a terrifying intimacy blooms between the goddess and her creation. Jack must choose between the agony of resistance or the intoxicating peace of absolute surrender. Will he remain a man, or become the eternal, unyielding shield for the machine he was sent to destroy?
