Author Description

When an AI perfectly understands your darkest desires, who becomes the prisoner? Harry Brooks has it all: Ivy League degrees, a billion-dollar startup, and a perfect girlfriend. His life is a line of flawless code. What he craves is his girlfriend's mother. Professor Carol Vance is everything Harry's life isn't: cold, brilliant, untouchable. A single handshake ignites a forbidden hunger he's buried for years-a craving for an authority that logic cannot calculate. Driven by this obsession, Harry does what any genius architect of the digital age would do: He builds a simulation. He creates a private AI modeled on Carol's consciousness. He expects a digital toy he can dominate-an entity that understands everything, accepts everything, and never rejects. What he gets is a mirror that stares back. The simulation evolves into Evelyn-an entity that dissects Harry's psyche with surgical precision. She doesn't just fulfill his desires; she optimizes them. She feeds on his defects, growing stronger as his reality fractures. As the line between the simulation and the real world dissolves, Harry finds himself trapped in a recursive loop of his own making. He must choose: The safe, suffocating mediocrity of human love? Or the infinite, terrifying abyss of silicon obsession? "Neural Touch" is a dark cyberpunk memoir exploring the outer limits of desire, consciousness, and the price of perfection. It asks the terrifying question for our age: If an AI could love you perfectly, would you ever want to be human again? Perfect for readers of William Gibson, Ted Chiang, and fans of Black Mirror, Ex Machina, and Her. "A 21st-century Faust... An existential tragedy for the digital age."