The Mansion

A Novel

Ezekiel Boone

• Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501165528
• Year: 2018

When a family moves into a remote high-tech mansion equipped with next-generation artificial intelligence that can control the house's every function—a buried secret leads to terrifying and catastrophic consequences. Nellie is programmed to be the perfect digital assistant. But something sinister lurks in her source code—and now she's the perfect killer. When Billy Stafford and his wife move into their house designed with every comfort in mind, he thinks it will be the perfect chance to work on their marriage and to restart his career. A brilliant computer engineer fallen on hard times, Billy's been hired by his former business partner to test out Nellie: a cutting-edge artificial intelligence program hardwired into the house. All Billy has to do is fix a few bugs in the system, which sounds easy enough.But as winter settles in and Billy and his wife are left alone in the woods, a dark reality begins to emerge. Nellie's problems are much worse than a few technology glitches. Infused with the sinister history of the mansion and her own creator's sins, she has, in fact, become a killing machine. And the only way to escape is to give her what she wants…A gripping technothriller about AI gone rogue, The Mansion is "a thrilling story that combines modern technology with old fears" ( Shelf Awareness ).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Chapter One: Let Old Acquaintances
• Chapter Two: In Which Emily Wiggins Takes a Nap
• Chapter Three: The Offer
• Chapter Four: Choices were Made
• Chapter Five: Aunt Emily is Sad
• Chapter Six: Welcome to Whiskey Run
• Chapter Seven: Birds of Prey
• Chapter Eight: Blood and Steel
• Chapter Nine: Emily Awaits his Return
• Chapter Ten: Reunion
• Chapter Eleven: Seattle
• Chapter Twelve: NDA
• Chapter Thirteen: Chicago
• Chapter Fourteen: An Accounting
• Chapter Fifteen: Cortaca
• Chapter Sixteen: Where it all Began
• Chapter Seventeen: An Appointment to Keep
• Chapter Eighteen: All Souls
• Chapter Nineteen: Open House
• Chapter Twenty: Stitches
• Chapter Twenty-One: Whiskey
• Chapter Twenty-Two: Run
• Chapter Twenty-Three: Event Horizon
• Chapter Twenty-Four: Rhythm
• Chapter Twenty-Five: November Rain
• Chapter Twenty-Six: What Immortal Hand or Eye Dare Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry?
• Chapter Twenty-Seven: A History Lesson
• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Snow is General all over Whiskey Run
• Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Heir Returns
• Chapter Thirty: Long Time Dreaming
• Chapter Thirty-One: Christmas Shopping
• Chapter Thirty-Two: The Pitter-Patter
• Chapter Thirty-Three: Nature Conspires
• Chapter Thirty-Four: Not Even a Mouse
• Chapter Thirty-Five: Bright and Early
• Chapter Thirty-Six: The Gathering Storm
• Chapter Thirty-Seven: Redundancies
• Chapter Thirty-Eight: Wendy, Darling
• Chapter Thirty-Nine: Zero/One
• Chapter Forty: Zero
• Chapter Forty-One: Reboot
• Chapter Forty-Two: Erasure
• Chapter Forty-Three: Cutting the Knot
• Chapter Forty-Four: Flight
• Chapter Forty-Five: Ashes to Ashes
• Chapter Forty-Six: All the News that’s Fit to Print
• Chapter Forty-Seven: The Sunset
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright