For Recreational Intercourse Operative Gemma, patrolling Newcity's Lovehuts and Pleasurebots isn't much of a pleasure. But it's work she clings to after an accident destroyed her marriage and left her with half her body made of replacement parts. She keeps her head down and her mind on her job, waiting for the proverbial hammer to fall. The head of the ruling council is out to make those like her illegal. If anyone finds out she's mecho, she's toast. A routine inspection of a Pleasurebot turns into a strictly forbidden-and mind-blowing-sexual encounter. Then she realizes it isn't an "it" at all. He's human, and despite the sweet-hot climaxes he gives her, she buries her report to save them both from the consequences. Except he can't seem to stay away from her, and for a time life seems almost...normal. Until Gemma uncovers Declan's own deep, dark secret. A secret that could get her fired from R.I.O. Or both of them killed.