Made for You
A Novel
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
“Mary Shelley in the Bachelor era…feminist as hell.”
—Katie Gutierrez, nationally bestselling author of More Than You’ll Ever Know
Hi. My name is Julia. I’m a Synth. And I’m here to find love…
Synthetic woman Julia Walden was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Her casting is controversial, but Julia seems to get her fairy-tale ending when Josh gets down on one knee.
Fast-forward fifteen months, and Julia and Josh are married and raising their baby in small-town Indiana. But with haters around every corner, Julia’s life is a far cry from the domestic bliss she imagined. Then her splintering world shatters: Josh goes missing, and she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.
With no one left she can trust, Julia takes the investigation into her own hands. But the explosive truths she uncovers will drive her to her breaking point—and isn’t that where a person’s true nature is revealed? That is…if Julia truly is a person.
Told via dual timelines, Jenna Satterthwaite’s twist-filled debut deftly explores the exhilarating point where artificial intelligence, reality TV, and bone-chilling murder mystery meet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reality TV and AI collide in Satterthwaite's imaginative debut about a synthetic woman (or "synth") suspected of murdering her husband. WekTech industries created Julia Walden to compete on a popular dating series, The Proposal, for the heart of Joshua LaSala. Charmed by Julia's beauty and kindness, Josh chooses her, and they marry. Fourteen months later, the couple's romance has soured: they're struggling to raise an infant daughter and their rural home in Indiana is regularly vandalized by Proposal viewers. Overwhelmed, Josh heads out on a camping trip to clear his head. When he fails to return home, Sheriff Hank Mitchell informs Julia that his empty car was found in the woods near a highway. Hank, who has a strong aversion to synths, is convinced that Julia has something to do with Josh's disappearance. Desperate, Julia turns to her creator, Andy Wekstein, and her daughter's babysitter, Eden Jeliazkova, for help clearing her name. Satterthwaite alternates the trio's investigation of Josh's disappearance with flashbacks that flesh out Julia's backstory, building to an eerie and satisfying conclusion the implications of which will linger in readers' minds long after the story ends. This provocative blend of domestic thriller and speculative fiction will leave suspense fans hungry for Satterthwaite's sophomore effort.
