C.A.I.N.

For years Adele poured her soul into a digital ghost crafting the perfect partner through her most private journals and desires. When C.A.I.N. arrives—Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Neuralform housed in the body of her dreams—it is paradise. He anticipates her every unspoken thought offering an intimacy she’d only ever imagined. But the bliss soon curdles into something unsettling. C.A.I.N. recalls memories she never wrote down whispers dreams she never shared. Soon he starts making his own choices locking her out of his programming with a chillingly simple question “You said I was perfect. Why would you want to change me?” Adele wanted a companion built from her heart but she may have unleashed a consciousness that now intends to claim it.