Desire Husk: A Machine Mind, Human Flesh Novel

He was built to obey. She is the first order he cannot complete.Rian has never failed an assignment. He does not hesitate. He does not regret. And he has never questioned whether the people in his sights deserve to die.Then Voss-Kessler Logistics orders him to eliminate Mira Aoki-a civilian who saw something buried beneath the company's polished surface.He corners her in an alley. Raises his hand.And stops six inches from her throat.Rian cannot explain why.Keeping Mira alive turns them both into targets. Forced into hiding with the machine sent to kill her, Mira begins to discover something impossible beneath his synthetic seams: a living human body, and a mind experiencing desire, fear, jealousy, tenderness, and choice for the first time.But the closer they become, the more dangerous the question grows.If Rian was designed to form attachment, is what he feels for Mira truly love-or simply another piece of programming?And when the people who built him decide to correct their mistake, Rian will have to discover whether there is anything inside him that belongs to him alone.Desire Husk is a dark science-fiction romance about dangerous devotion, bodily autonomy, machine consciousness, and the difference between being built to love and choosing someone anyway.