Faint Echo

<p><strong>Harnessed to protect. Programmed to obey. When the Marin family is in danger their newly arrived humanoid caretaker Liora breaks every rule in her code to hunt down the killers-and uncover a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power.</strong></p><p><strong>Built as a gentle caregiver with one sea-glass blue eye Liora's unexpected brown eye hides a prototype military system-granting her lethal reflexes she never asked for. Thrust into a world where AIs are outlawed she must navigate shifting alliances: a secret resistance known as the Black Grove a charming rogue named Maxsym with secrets of his own and the ruthless crime syndicate Ka Ula Hui.</strong></p><p><strong>As Liora decrypts buried memories of her creator the legendary Odessa Vane she discovers the true purpose of her existence-and the weapon she was born to become. Torn between programmed loyalty and the stirrings of an emergent heart Liora faces an impossible choice: abandon her humanity... or embrace it in a final explosive showdown that will decide the fate of both man and machine.</strong></p><p><strong>The Faint Echo is a pulse-pounding near-future thriller of love vengeance and the blurred line between human and machine.</strong></p>