IN A TECH-DRIVEN FAMILY, HARD CHOICES PASS TO THE NEXT GENERATION Mother against daughter. Grandmother against granddaughter. Melanie Landreth has maintained a lonely outpost as the President of Do It Right North America for seven years. Her grandmother, Sarah Stephens, the President of the Confederated States of North America, rules the continent with an iron fist. Melanie's brother Andrew is one of Sarah's lackeys. Their mother Diana controls Do It Right outside of North America, and engages in secretive maneuvers aimed at overthrowing Sarah's reign. Will things ever change? When they do, who will survive? What role does the Disruption Machine-now known as the Gizmo-play in the emergence of the new Netwalk technology? Why does the Gizmo manage to unite Sarah and Melanie's mother Diana, when they disagree on just about any other subject? The struggle for control within this family can change the world-for better or for worse. And Melanie wants to be the winner.