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"When flawed humans attempt to create a pocket paradise, they create gut-wrenching moral choices instead. It is impossible to look away from Mary G. Thompson's provocative story of simulations, power imbalance, and whether kindness can overcome cruelty in the end."
--Carolyn Ives Gilman, author of Dark Orbit

Ella is the oldest five-year-old in the universe. For fifty-eight years, the founder of a simulated colony-planet has forced her to pretend to be his daughter. Her "Daddy" has absolute power over all elements of reality, which keeps the colonists in line even when their needs are not met. But his failing experiments and despotic need for absolute control are increasingly dangerous.

Ella's very life depends on her performance as a child. She has watched Daddy delete her stepmother and the loved ones of anyone who helps her. But every sixty years, a Technician comes from the world above. Ella has been watching and working and biding her time. Because if she cannot make the technician help her, the only solution is a desperate measure that could lead to consequences for the entire universe.

With her debut novel for adults, Mary G. Thompson has crafted a taut, meaningful, and ultimately hopeful work that deftly explores autonomy and destiny.