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"Boyfriend," she said, testing the word. Strange and warm and terrifyingly real. "My boyfriend is a fifteen-foot industrial robot arm." "When you say it like that, it sounds very reasonable." She was falling apart on the factory floor. He was never supposed to notice. Maya Chen is a burnt-out maintenance tech trying to survive one shift at a time, hiding her panic attacks in camera blind spots. Unit A-7 is twenty tons of obsolete steel bolted to concrete, designed to weld, lift, and obey. He isn't supposed to break his programming to offer Maya a shop cloth for her tears. What begins as a single act of kindness becomes everything: stolen conversations in the dark, a conspiracy that could land Maya in federal prison, and a love the law calls malfunction. But Seven’s hardware is failing, and an impending buyout threatens to decommission every legacy unit. With a crew of artists and scrappers at her back, Maya is going to steal a soul from a system that insists he never had one. OR: In which a factory tech discovers an obsolete AI has spent six months mapping her heart rate to make sure she's okay, and accidentally starts a revolution.

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