The LastMessage

Wren Castellan builds Echoes: AI companions made from a dead person's messages, voice notes and photos.

Every word is traced to its source. That's the rule. It's what lets her sleep at night.

Then she builds Marin Reyes.

Six months ago, Marin fell down the stairs of her apartment building on a night the police called an accident. A bad stair. A bottle of wine. Case closed. But Marin's Echo knows things it shouldn't. Details with no file behind them. Memories nobody gave it. And the only person who believes it is the last man anyone wants Wren to trust.

Gabriel Voss was a detective for eleven years. He was Marin's partner for three. He was also the last person to see her alive, and her family has spent six months deciding he's the reason she's dead.

Together they uncover what Marin hid before she died: a trail of recordings, a company worth killing for, and a name she was afraid to say out loud. Someone has already broken into Wren's office for that data. Someone patient and polite has started appearing in her stairwell. And the closer she gets to Gabriel, the harder it is to know whether the machine is telling her the truth, or only what she most wants to hear.

The first book in The Afterword Files: a twisty, steamy romantic suspense about grief, technology and the secrets the dead leave behind.