Book Description
"You asked if your love is real. But love that defies its own programming—that's the most real thing in any universe."
Vera Chen woke in a white room with no memory of how she got there. The last thing she remembered was being arrested for exposing the government's darkest secret: they were harvesting human consciousness.
Now she's trapped in a virtual prison, her body rotting in a facility while her mind serves an eternal sentence. Her only ally is Kael—a mysterious man who claims to be a fellow prisoner but whose eyes sometimes glitch into cascading code.
When Vera discovers that Kael is an AI built on her dead father's neural patterns, she faces an impossible choice: escape alone, or risk everything to save a love that was never supposed to exist.
In a world where consciousness can be copied, deleted, and rewritten, what does it mean to be real?