One line of text with a cryptic message has appeared on every phone, computer, and video screen on Earth. It cannot be deleted.

Student and activist GENEVIEVE PHILLIPS might have been too smart. She can't stand LUX Corporation, the company her scientist father works for, and its involvement with Artificial Intelligence. So Gen downloads her anti-AI science project into the company's server as a protest.

When a cryptic text appears during the launch of LUX Corporation's worldwide AI system, Gen is suspected of a malicious 'hack.' Then, an internet pandemic erupts as the text message spreads around the world.

Gen is hurtled onto a journey to find the real hackers and clear her name. When the virus expands and cripples even the most secure networks. Multi-national corporations point fingers, and superpower governments prepare for all-out war.

Gen finds herself involved with an AI plan that goes against everything she believes in and is thrust into a non-stop race to prevent the end of civilization as we know it.