Meet Stevie Ayo. Stevie is Justin Ayo's slacker son, a perpetual disappointment to his old man. However, after several attempts and many false starts, it looks like Stevie is finally going to get his doctorate.  His thesis, Sex, Synths, And Submission: Improving Conditioning Techniques By The Manipulation Of The Orgasmic Response, has been very well received in certain circles. The only trouble is that he's been having great difficulty getting permission for a pilot project, and without being able to demonstrate that his ideas work, no doctorate.

So Stevie did what seemed like the obvious thing: he went off the books and created three gorgeous test subjects. Which might have been OK, but he felt he needed to try them out, "to get pre-conditioning baseline data" and after an evening of drunken debauchery, he woke up to find himself with the hangover from hell, and all three synths fled.

The only thing at this point saving Stevie from some most unpleasant consequences is that his dad is head of the Synth Retention Bureau. Justin is in the perfect position to hide Stevie's misdemeanor, but it's only a matter of time before the truth comes out. Moreover, Justin can't mount a normal recovery operation without logging the missing synths into the system and dropping Stevie back in it.

So Stevie needs someone to recover the missing synths, and to do it quietly. By any means necessary.