Charon was the most ruthless - and brilliant - criminal of the twenty-first century, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. He is dead now, thanks to General Thomas Wharington. However, one major problem remains: Alpha, the only android survivor of Charon's cybernetic empire.

Outwardly indistinguishable from a human woman, Alpha has superhuman strength and speed, and perhaps even more deadly unknown capabilities. Thomas's superiors want her dismantled and studied, but to Thomas it feels like murder. Charon might be dead, but Alpha continues to carry out his orders, and she refuses to elaborate on what those orders entail. Her behavior is becoming more human-or so it seems.

Is she developing emotions and a conscience, or is she just learning to counterfeit them as a means of carrying out her enigmatic orders?

And do those orders include Thomas's death sentence?