A fugitive, deserter and war criminal travels to Shenzen Sphere, a place created by and ruled over by AIs who left their humans, to get away from her previous life – and is promptly greeted by a former “acquaintance”, together with whome she is now tasked to figure out several high profile suicides among Haruxpexes, the human/machine-hybrides used by Shenzen to… breed? incubate? create? to do things with new AIs.
Of course there’s more to it, and large-scale political intrigue follows.

It’s a novella, so it’s a rather quick read.
There’s also more of them, which I plan on getting into now that I refreshed on the first one.¹