First published 2024
Detective Maritza Smith receives an impossible call. Rose House, the AI dwelling in the remote Mojave desert, reports a dead body inside its sealed chambers. The house belonged to architect Basit Deniau, who died over a year ago. Only Dr. Selene Gisil, his former student, has permission to enter the structure. But Selene was out of the country when the call came in. Rose House is no ordinary smart home. The artificial intelligence lives within every wall and corner, thinking and observing. It speaks to Smith with an alien logic that unsettles her. Someone broke into the impenetrable house and died there. Smith must discover who the victim is, how they entered, and what killed them. The answers wait somewhere in Rose House's twisting corridors. But the AI controls every door and passage. Smith faces a mystery where the building itself may be suspect, witness, and judge.
Genres: science-fiction, mystery, thriller, artificial-intelligence
Vibes: atmospheric, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: house-as-character, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Mojave Desert
128 pages · ebook · Tordotcom