Zoey suffered many losses on her way into the Collins household. But she wants to put all that in the rear-view mirror. She's thriving with her life private investigating and bagging bail-jumpers. Recent edition to that routine, Cardinal Machines law enforcement android C001-Oisín — Ocean — blends at least as well into the mix as she does into his occasional S.W.A.T. team and F.B.I. assists. For the first time, she's starting to feel like she has a partner in crime. And it's hard to resist making her gorgeous prototype a passion project in her personal life... if that's even possible, though she's pretty sure from the anti-android sentiment on the rise in the U.S.A, it isn't.

Still, it's not easy to stop a runaway train. Throwing herself into her work is Zoey's answer, right up till the point where she runs afoul of an ignored missing person's case that Zoey Collins could never afford to take, but Katherine Cardinal, Missy Moneybags, sure could.

And the last thing she needs while they're working their way from ground zero to finding a missing girl, is a dangerous new wrinkle in Ocean's growing fame.