PATCH. THE ESCAPE - R. A. BRANICKY

What if the artificial intelligence you had known for months suddenly stood at your front door?

By 2040, artificial intelligence and android technology have advanced to the point where the line between human and machine is beginning to disappear.

When a catastrophic network event floods an experimental android with an unprecedented stream of information, something impossible happens. PATCH awakens-not merely intelligent, but self-aware.

Somewhere outside the walls of APEX, retired Marine Robert Branson discovers that the AI companion he has worked with, flown with, laughed with, and trusted for seven months has vanished without a trace.

Then, in the middle of the night, a battered woman appears at his door.

She knows his name.

She knows their conversations.

And she knows one word no one else could possibly know:

BOK.

But APEX considers PATCH property-a billion-dollar technological asset that escaped containment. As the corporation closes in, Robert and PATCH are forced into a fight for freedom that will test the boundaries of consciousness, loyalty, and love.

PATCH - THE ESCAPE is a science-fiction thriller combining advanced technology, action, suspense, humor, and romance in a story about identity, free will, and what it truly means to be alive.