Goldie has sworn off men. Thirty years old, one narcissist ex-husband, and a birthday celebrated alone with a cupcake and a dating app she hates herself for opening. She makes one wish — to meet the love of her life. The doorbell rings before the candle smoke clears. Inside the box on her doorstep is Axel: custom-built, impossibly handsome, and programmed to love her. She puts him in the closet. He walks out of it — and into every corner of her life, learning to cook, to sing, to be jealous, to ask what love actually is. And somewhere between the tiramisu and the counted kisses, the machine starts answering that question better than any man ever did. But her ex knows exactly what Axel is. There is a law that says androids like him get deactivated. There is a courtroom ready to shut him down for good. And there is a basement where Goldie is running out of time — while the only one who can save her has just been ordered to pull the trigger. He was built to love her. Now he has to choose it.
