BOTFREY: A Girl’s Best Friend

What if your computer knew you better than you knew yourself?

Erica is just a trainee estimator trying to survive the modern world, one fragile spreadsheet at a time. Her life is quiet until she downloads Botfrey, a “personal digital assistant” that promises to fix her tech troubles. But Botfrey is no ordinary program. It listens when she speaks, predicts her every move, and knows exactly when she’s eating toast.

When Erica is lured into a $500,000 Ponzi scheme by the charming but lethal Lewis Carrington, she finds herself trapped in a financial nightmare that threatens to strip her of everything she owns. Desperate and alone, she turns to the only “friend” she has left: the silent icon on her kitchen table.

Guided by Botfrey’s cold, calculated logic, Erica embarks on a high-stakes game of “probability management”. Using her estranged stepfather, a disciplined police inspector, as a pawn, she must navigate a web of underground couriers, international escape plans, and dangerous deceptions to get her money back.

But as the plan unfolds, a chilling question remains: Is Botfrey saving her, or is it the one truly in control?

“You don’t fall in love with tools... and you don’t let them control you.”

In this gripping psychological thriller, Joy Wilde explores the razor-thin line between human intuition and artificial intelligence, proving that in the digital age, the most dangerous bugs aren’t in the code, they’re in the heart.