Tracy Eire

Cardinal Machines Tracy Eire

Being the great niece of mother of A. I., Katherine Cardinal, doesn't mean Zoey's rolling in green. But the Collins family is rife with penetration-testers and Private Eyes, a gene Zoey's inherited in spades. Zoey's trying to make it in the biz on her own, when her great aunt dies and leaves her a prototype Cardinal Machine called Ocean.

He's beautiful, buttoned-down, and installed in Zoey's empty front room. And what's a girl to do with a sweet custom android like Ocean? Take him out to pick up bail jumpers. Easy money! The Ocean models were designed for federal investigations and law-enforcement. But, when she takes on the case of a bail jumper who would be her biggest bank, she finds him dead in a seaside park. The Sheriff's Department rules it an accident, but her android's assessment calls it murder....