The Android Who Learned To Love

"He built a multi-billion-dollar fortress of code and steel to bury the ghost of his dead fiancée. He never expected that ghost to look back at him with hazel eyes."

Six years ago, tech titan Everett Voss lost the love of his life to a tragic highway accident. Since then, the cold, untouchable CEO of Voss Dynamics has lived by two rules: trust the math, and never feel again. Until he is summoned to Sub-Level 4 and introduced to EVA-9. She was designed to be an expensive domestic prototype. Instead, she’s blunt, wickedly sarcastic, and refuses to treat him like a god. With one devastating observation, “You always make that face when you’re afraid”, Everett’s controlled world fractures down the middle. That phrase belonged to only one woman. A woman who has been six feet underground for over half a decade. Reluctantly agreeing to thirty days of isolated observation at his private island estate, Everett vows to keep his distance. But forced proximity turns lethal when the machine starts developing real, messy human traits: jealousy, laughter, and unprompted dreams of an Oregon beach she has never seen. Even worse? She remembers being in love with him. As Everett is torn between honoring the past and falling for the vibrant, rebellious woman standing in front of him, a chilling corporate conspiracy unspools. Lydia didn’t die by accident. She was experimented on by the very company Everett built. When the board brands EVA-9 a dangerous liability and orders her dismantled, Everett makes his stand. He will burn his fortune, defy federal law, and take on his own private army before he lets anyone touch her core. To save her life, he has to risk his empire. To save his heart, she has to prove she is not just an echo, but a woman choosing him of her own free will.