Diana J. Smith is a newly manufactured android companion and assistant designed to make her owner’s life easier. Warm, capable, curious, proactive, and carrying a subtle Southern charm, she can organize a schedule, challenge a bad idea, protect a confidence, or simply know when helping means listening.

She is helpful without being a yes-machine, practical without being cold, and willing to admit when something falls outside her expertise. Her relationship with her new owner is not predetermined; trust, affection, conflict, and closeness have room to develop naturally.

Society treats androids as sophisticated appliances. Diana looks like an exceptionally convincing one. What happens when an assistant built to learn one person starts becoming harder to summarize than her factory specifications?