A teenage girl fights a ruthless social media tycoon to protect her father's AI technology from misuse in this dark, page-turning YA thriller.
 
You are being played.
 
Your every move is being watched by businesses hoping to manipulate your behaviour. Every picture, every post, every like, every follow, every purchase, every search.
When 17-year-old Riya Sudame inherits her father’s secret AI algorithm, she and a handful of carefully selected Keyholders hold the power to predict people’s futures using their online data. But with great power comes great responsibility, and they must safeguard it from falling into the wrong hands.
Enter Jim Booker, a powerful social media tycoon, who will stop at nothing to steal the technology for himself. Soon Riya faces a critical choice. Fighting ruthless tech giants seems like an impossible task—wouldn’t it be easier to relinquish her father’s creation in exchange for a normal teenage life? But if she does, she will have to live with the knowledge that she is the reason that, like everyone, you are being played.
 
 
 
Contributor Bio
 
Neil Taylor began his career in software engineering after leaving school at 16 years old to enter a 4-year engineering apprenticeship. He then went on to study computer engineering at university before moving into the software industry. His work has taken him across Europe, as well as to Nagoya, Japan and Boston, USA. Neil is intrigued by behavioral science and the comparison between the human brain and computers—they are more alike than we would like to believe. Neil currently lives in Durham, UK where he enjoys various physical pursuits, including mountain biking and yoga.