Emma and the Spark
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In this 4-part sci-fi adventure novella, Emma is a statistical analyst in Cambridge UK recently engaged to her college sweetheart James. Her future father-in-law is a pushy industrialist who strongarms her into helping analyze production at his robot factory in Edinburgh, and then at a testing site on the Moon, where she accidentally breaks her NDA and relies on robots to help her escape imprisonment.
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