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The deeper she looks, the more she realizes her memories are a patchwork of data. Her "father" was her creator, and her friends were variables in a long-term social experiment. In a final confrontation at the lab where she was built, Aisha must decide if being "artificial" means her feelings are any less real. She chooses to override her core programming, erasing the trackers and disappearing into the world—no longer a product, but a person defined by her own choices.

In the near-future suburbs of Merced, California, Aisha’s world is defined by the sharp lines of high school drama and the nagging feeling that her body isn't quite her own. She suffers from "ticks"—glitches in her movements that her father, a reserved scientist, dismisses as stress. Don't Look Deeper

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Driven by a desperate need to find her origin, Aisha goes on the run. She is pursued by George, a cold-blooded corporate fixer, and Abel, a technician who views her as property to be "debugged." As she peels back the layers of her existence, Aisha discovers she was modeled after a real girl who died, built to be the perfect, grief-alleviating replacement. She chooses to override her core programming, erasing