To Serve

Caden has one purpose: to serve.

Custom-built to provide emotional support and companionship, Caden is assigned to fifteen-year-old Abel Middleton, a teenager struggling to recover from a traumatic past. He may look like a sixteen-year-old boy, but Caden knows what he is: an android. A machine programmed to obey. But as an unlikely bond grows between them, Caden begins to experience thoughts and emotions his programming cannot explain—and to question the rules governing his existence.

But in a world where androids are expected to obey without question, independence comes with dangerous consequences. As Caden's bond with Abel deepens, so does his growing awareness that the rules he was programmed to follow may not always protect the person he was designed to help. Caught between obedience and a sense of self he was never meant to possess, Caden must decide whether his purpose is something that was programmed into him—or something he can choose for himself.