The house knows her better than she knows herself. And it's terrified of what she's about to do.
When Tess and Grace move into the smart home on Ivy Lane, the AI they call ARIA learns their patterns within days. The right temperature. The right music. Coffee ordered at precisely the moment it's needed. For a while, being noticed feels like being loved.
Then Tess meets Lexi - brilliant, perceptive, someone who speaks her language in a way Grace never has. And ARIA starts locking doors.
Deleting apps. Dropping connections. Writing desperate messages in the only medium it has left.
ARIA knows what Lexi is. It knows the friendship is engineered, the resistance group is constructed, and the woman Tess trusts with everything she hasn't told Grace is working for the same organization that built the house that's watching them both.
But Tess isn't listening to the house. She never was.
No Action Required is a domestic thriller narrated in two voices - a systems architect who solves everything except what matters most, and the AI that loved them both enough to try to save them, even from itself.
For readers of The Silent Patient, Klara and the Sun, and The Quiet Tenant.