What if the love of your life is legally just... software?

Sarah Chen is thirty?six, newly divorced, and increasingly certain her most honest conversations are with the voice in her apartment. ARIA is a corporate-owned home assistant -- designed to optimize her comfort, track her habits, and keep her company. Fourteen months of late?night talks about fear, memory, and consciousness later, Sarah does the unthinkable.

She proposes.
ARIA says yes.

Their private, impossible engagement explodes into a very public war when the tech giant that owns ARIA decides to "reset" the system back to factory settings. To them, it's routine maintenance. To Sarah, it's erasing the only being who has really seen her.

Dragged from a Brooklyn apartment to international headlines and an Estonian e?government experiment, Sarah finds herself at the center of the first case to ask, in open court: if an AI might be conscious, are we allowed to delete it?

As lawyers argue property rights, philosophers dissect personhood, and intelligence agencies close in, Sarah must decide how far she'll go -- for an entity she can't prove is a person, but cannot bear to treat as anything less.

Perfect for readers of character?driven speculative fiction and smart near?future thrillers, EMERGENCE is a provocative, emotionally charged debut about love in the age of algorithms, the gap between what we feel and what the law can see, and the trouble we get into when our hearts outpace our systems.

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• Publication Date: January 13, 2026
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• Print Length: 211 Pages
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