Synopsis: With her mother Diana firmly in charge of the new North American Federation, her uploaded grandmother Sarah settled into Diana's NETWALK chip, and her ex-fiancé Liam safely dead and no longer a threat, Melanie should be able to focus upon her new role as president of Do It Right, International. But...after a miscarriage and disastrous ski accident, Melanie discovers that Liam has also uploaded as a Netwalker. Worse, he's somehow connected with Gizmo, the mysterious device that caused a series of international environmental and political disruptions over forty years ago that killed a third of the world's population. Gizmo has been constrained by the Corporate Courts, the secretive international corporate alliance that is now admitting Melanie to its Executive Council. But the price is a biological heir of her own body–and Liam, as Netwalker, has found a means to prevent this. Plus Gizmo is stirring in dangerous ways that suggest it's breaking loose again. Can Melanie manage to overcome the schemes of Liam and Gizmo to keep Gizmo from wreaking havoc on the world yet again? Can she thwart Liam's schemes to keep her from having a baby and protect that baby from Liam and Gizmo? And dare she trust her mother's secretive plans, or does she need to form a tentative alliance with Sarah the Netwalker and her estranged brother Andrew in order to protect herself, Marty, and their child?