Why would anyone need human genius when machines can do everything faster?
Then sixteen-year-old Eli Carter creates something no AI can reproduce.
He calls it a simple machine.
Scientists call it impossible.
Corporations call it the most valuable invention in human history.
Eli becomes America's most important scientist overnight.
But he refuses to explain how he created it.
As government agencies and technology companies compete for control of the teenager, journalist Rachel Morgan discovers that Eli's father was once a brilliant inventor whose research was stolen and buried.
Eli did not invent his machine from nothing.
He finished his father's work.
And the invention may be the one technology capable of giving humanity an advantage over artificial intelligence.