A young woman is forced to make a decision as to whether to give up her baby after her lover abandoned her, and because everyone she thought might be there for her ridiculed her for the choices she made.

Jennifer was a smart girl and knew a lot of things... But there was one thing she didn't know... and that was who she was.

Harper Vance is an architect obsessed with perfection, a drive born from a catastrophic professional failure. She designed Serinity Tower and its governing intelligence, Serinity AI, to be the ultimate self-optimizing environment, flawlessly eliminating all human error and anxiety—or Cognitive Friction (CF)—from the lives of its inhabitants.