What if your worst enemy was your only hope? What if saving your life meant destroying your beliefs? How far would you go to survive?

MACs (Manufactured Anodic Commandos) were designed for battle. Most people believe sending robotic soldiers into combat is better than risking human lives. But Cara has seen what happens when unfeeling, soulless automatons decide who lives and who dies. Machines don’t care whether the enemy is holding a rake instead of a gun, or that a six-year-old girl watches from a bedroom window. All they know is what they were programmed for—destruction.

When Cara finds herself wounded and defenseless in the middle of a battle zone, she has no choice but to use the only weapon she can find: a disabled MAC. Without him, she won’t make it out alive. With him, she might come out a different person. Will hate destroy her? Or will the natural love of a creator for its creation open her eyes to a truth that changes everything?

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