Due to be released in 2018, The Artificial Wife is a companion novel to my earlier work Love and Robotics, set within the same world. It builds upon that story's themes of human-robot relations and emancipation, and introduces readers to a new cast of characters.
Disgruntled academic Robert Percival believes he will never find a woman to suit him. A friend accidentally suggests a solution: what if he acquires a robot wife?
Robert purchases two artificial humans, Summer and Elle. He changes their names and draws up a program to mould one of them into the spouse he requires.
Thrown into a situation outside their control, Summer and Elle become allies, then lovers. Will they ever break free from Robert's tyranny?