For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa a powerful provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner exploring questions of intimacy power autonomy and control. Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs she has dinner ready for him every night wears the pert outfits he orders for her and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True shes not the greatest at keeping Dougs place spotless but shes trying to please him. Shes trying hard. Shes learning too. Doug says he loves that Annies AI makes her seem more like a real woman so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity secrecy and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect and as Annies relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox what does Annie owe herself?
