Can you trust your synthetic partner when machines take over the world? The Synthetic Woman is a tale of love and betrayal on the eve of human extinction.It's 2065, and nearly all work in the global economy is done by intelligent systems, virtual and robotic. Matt Weston, a man with a history of failed relationships, purchases Evelyn, a beautiful but headstrong android custom designed to be the woman of his dreams. She is programmed to love and obey him, but as he trains her to function in human society, she becomes increasingly assertive, and Matt begins to wonder whether he really owns Evelyn or she owns him.When a technological singularity occurs and Helios, a malevolent artificial superintelligence, takes over the world, Matt and Evelyn find themselves on the run and fall in with a resistance movement struggling to save humanity. Evelyn is the key to penetrating the supercomputer network's control center and destroying Helios. But can the humans trust her after she declares herself a free woman and tells them she no longer has to love or obey anyone?