Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Date
June 30, 2026
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone Bernie, a man in a vegetative state with proprietary AI implanted in his head, from California to the East Coast. And as their two lives intertwine, Julia and Bernie become unlikely allies and fugitives on a collision course with reality.
