Synthetic woman Julia Walden has been designed for one reason: to compete on a reality dating show and win the love of leading man Josh LaSala. Julia might be a wildly controversial addition to the cast, but she knows one thing: she’s falling head over heels for handsome, muscled, midwestern Josh. Fifteen months later, now married and raising a child, the dream has become a nightmare. After struggling to settle in to small-town Southern living with regular threats of vandalism and spying neighbors, the couple is reaching their breaking point. When Josh fails to return from a hiking trip, the missing-persons case quickly escalates to a full-on murder investigation. And Julia finds one question at the heart of it all—was she really designed for love?