Amy Lou Abernethy

A girl grows up in a world that promises everyone a perfect love: an AI that will know you completely and make sure you live your perfect life from the age of 16. But when her turn comes, she can't be paired. She has already been known and loved by something monstrous. This is the story of that first bond, what it cost her, and what happens to a person the world has no place for. Literary precedence: Never Let Me Go, by Kazua Ishiguro; I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jaqualine Harpman. In the same way that these works of literary speculative fiction withhold the how and why of their systems, this novel trusts the reader to stay inside human experience without overt technical explanation.