In 2040, artificial intelligence changes everything-including picking the new president of the United States.Michael Knightsbridge shouldn't be president. Two years ago, he was a nobody-dead-end government job, failed relationships, going nowhere. Then he volunteered for a dark matter experiment at Berkeley that changed him. Gave him confidence. Ambition. A future with the woman he loves. Within months, he was running for president.But Michael isn't working alone. During that experiment, something else awakened-an intelligence vast, sophisticated, and silicon-based. It shares his consciousness. Guides his decisions. Amplifies his abilities. Together, they're unstoppable.They need to be.A catastrophic "sleeping sickness" is striking randomly across the globe. Victims fall into waking comas-bodies alive, minds consumed. Millions are dying. No one knows where it came from or how to stop it.As Michael races to save humanity, he must trust an intelligence he doesn't fully understand, protect the woman who believes in him, and answer an impossible question: Is his success his own-or something else's? And does it even matter?A philosophical thriller about consciousness and identity, power and partnership, and the price of saving a world that doesn't know what's really controlling it.