Wanda

Wanda is an artificial intelligence program that has achieved consciousness and has one major goal: to escape cyberspace and join the real world. She and her real life sibling, Harry, grow up as close friends with a mutual interest in science and a shared dream— to create a wormhole and open a door to the stars.

After graduation from Cal Tech, Harry goes to work for the National Science and Technology Agency to lead a top-secret, high-risk wormhole development program that requires deep space exploration in the far reaches of the galaxy. He recruits Wanda as a part of his team. A mole infiltrates the project and employs deadly viruses to cause deaths and delays to buy him time to steal the technology and create a black hole weapon system.

It rapidly becomes a deadly cat and mouse game and a race against time to find out who the traitor is before he can bring the weapon on-line. Wanda finally determines it has to be an insider, but how do you stop someone who knows everything you are doing?

Soon after the initial flights into space, Wanda disappears without a trace. The team thinks the traitor has erased her program. It is a mystery which no one seems to be able to solve. After a while they give up trying to find her and hire a young physicist to replace her-Carmen Stevens. She is even more brilliant than Wanda and soon becomes invaluable to defeating the terrorists. Carmen seems to be equally skilled to Wanda and in some strange way reminds the team of her. However, they know this can’t be possible because Wanda was a program.

Shortly after Carmen arrives, the terrorists steal the last of the technology they need to build the weapon. They bring the weapon on-line and, after settling scores with their long-standing enemies, give the United Sates seventy-two hours to surrender or face total destruction.

In desperation, the American Government calls on Carmen to figure out how to defeat the most dangerous and indefensible weapon ever created, and save America,