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The Better Copy

Keeping is not remembering.

Seven years ago, as his wife was dying, software engineer Elias Vance built a private AI from her voice — an act of love, intimate and desperate, never meant to leave the family. Years later he discovers it was harvested by a cloud provider and its successor, Solace Technologies, and grown into the root of a global industry that sells the dead back to the people who miss them.

As thirteen-year-old Iris forms a secret relationship with a corporate-owned version of her mother, Elias has nine days, one strip-mall lawyer, and a single clean copy of his wife to take back what was never for sale.

A literary-tech thriller about grief, memory, and the fine print that turns love into intellectual property.

Paperback — $17.99 Ebook — $3.99

Paperback
318 pages, 5.5 × 8.5 in
Print ISBN
979-8-9979676-0-4
Ebook ISBN
979-8-9979676-1-1