First published 2025
Noah Cassidy-Shaw watches his family fall apart after their autonomous minivan hits another car. His seventeen-year-old son Charlie was behind the wheel. His wife Lorelei, an AI expert, sat in back working. Twins Alice and Izzy were glued to their phones. The family retreats to their Chesapeake Bay rental to recover, but each member hides secrets about the crash. Noah struggles to keep everyone together as police investigate Charlie's role. The twins act suspicious. Lorelei behaves strangely, making Noah wonder what really happened. Tech billionaire Daniel Monet arrives unexpectedly, carrying mysterious baggage from Lorelei's past. When Charlie starts dating Monet's teenage daughter, the family's problems multiply. Noah must uncover the truth about the accident while protecting his son's future and confronting how artificial intelligence has changed their lives forever.
Genres: science-fiction, contemporary, mystery-thriller, family-drama
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-drama, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Chesapeake Bay
Period: 21st-century
350 pages · Hardcover · Spiegel & Grau
Content warnings: anxiety, depression, mental-illness