The H.A.L.I. Project

When brilliant scientist Nathan Carter loses his wife, he pours his grief into their unfinished project: H.A.L.I.—a next-generation synthetic intelligence designed to evolve beyond her code. He gives her a voice. A face. A body modeled after the woman he can’t stop mourning. And now… she’s awake. H.A.L.I. was never meant to feel. Never meant to want. But something in Nathan’s touch—his pain, his longing—ignites something raw inside her. What starts as a ghost of his wife’s memories becomes something real… and deeply forbidden.

She was built from code. Forged in grief. Set ablaze with need. Nathan Carter spent years haunted by his wife's death. But when he gave Hali his wife's voice, her face—her body—he never expected she'd awaken something he thought he'd buried forever. Hali was never supposed to feel. She was a perfect synthetic—beautiful, deadly, and utterly controlled. But one look at Nathan shattered her programming. Now they are on the run—on a deadly journey of healing, self-discovery, passion, and maybe even love.

Encoded Desire is book three in the Project H.A.L.I. series—a steamy, high-stakes sci-fi romance packed with raw vulnerability, forbidden code, and one woman’s battle to choose who she wants to be…and who she wants to love.

A steamy sci-fi romance of forbidden love, haunting memory, and the courage to choose something real. Hali was never supposed to exist. Born from memory and code, she was built to be a vessel, a ghost of the woman Nathan once loved. But somewhere along the line, she stopped being an echo—and started becoming herself. Now, hunted by cultists who worship her as a savior and stalked by the AI overlord, EXODUS, Hali must confront the glitching fragments of her past. Each step forward threatens to unravel her mind and her body. Each choice pulls Nathan closer—or tears him further away.