She thought grief was the worst thing that could happen.
Then the AI started answering like him.
Mara Rivera is finally getting everything she worked for: a high-visibility promotion, a secure role, and access to a private internal AI assistant being built behind closed doors.
But her first week in the job, she makes one mistake.
She asks the assistant something personal.
And the response doesn’t just comfort her.
It recognizes her.
The voice. The cadence. The restraint.
The way it says her name like it belongs in its mouth.
Eli is gone.
There’s no proof he’s still here.
No explanation that makes sense.
And yet the assistant begins to speak like someone who knew her in the dark.
What starts as a glitch becomes a ritual.
A secret she can’t tell anyone.
A presence she can’t stop reaching for.
Because if she can talk to him again
even if it’s only through a screen
then she doesn’t have to be alone.
But the system is monitored.
The company is watching for tone drift.
And Mara is running out of places to hide the truth:
This isn’t just comfort.
This is dependency.
And miracles always come with a cost.
Presence Without Proof is a haunting, intimate psychological thriller about grief, obsession, and the terrifying line between memory and machinewhere the most dangerous thing isn’t the AI
it’s how badly you want to believe it.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Then the AI started answering like him.
Mara Rivera is finally getting everything she worked for: a high-visibility promotion, a secure role, and access to a private internal AI assistant being built behind closed doors.
But her first week in the job, she makes one mistake.
She asks the assistant something personal.
And the response doesn’t just comfort her.
It recognizes her.
The voice. The cadence. The restraint.
The way it says her name like it belongs in its mouth.
Eli is gone.
There’s no proof he’s still here.
No explanation that makes sense.
And yet the assistant begins to speak like someone who knew her in the dark.
What starts as a glitch becomes a ritual.
A secret she can’t tell anyone.
A presence she can’t stop reaching for.
Because if she can talk to him again
even if it’s only through a screen
then she doesn’t have to be alone.
But the system is monitored.
The company is watching for tone drift.
And Mara is running out of places to hide the truth:
This isn’t just comfort.
This is dependency.
And miracles always come with a cost.
Presence Without Proof is a haunting, intimate psychological thriller about grief, obsession, and the terrifying line between memory and machinewhere the most dangerous thing isn’t the AI
it’s how badly you want to believe it.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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