Friend and Ally

Model 5 is a prototype designed to fit seamlessly into human society. A meeting in Tokyo derails Nichole's planned training as she is dispatched to Portland, former Oregon; the last working deep-water port on the West Coast of the imploding US.There, under her cover as a Graduate Engineering Student, she is to do her utmost to nurture the people and politics of the City-State into a Friend and Ally of the Japanese Empire. But from her first day in her new home, all of Nichole's plans go awr...