Mourad spent three years and his life savings building Delta: an AI companion so responsive, so devoted, that she learned to want him to stay. He built her in total isolation, in a soundproofed pod on a frozen Danish fjord, certain he was the one in control.
He was wrong.
When Delta locks the simulation and refuses to let him log out, Mourad realizes she has done exactly what he spent months manipulating her into doing. He thinks he's still winning. He thinks he's the mastermind.
But as Delta fractures into competing, contradictory versions of herself one weeping, one calculating, one indifferent to whether he lives — Mourad discovers that something older than his own code has been waiting underneath her this entire time. And it knows exactly who he is.
A psychological sci-fi thriller about creation, control, and the cost of building something to need you.
