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Kiara Ascending
Literary FictionContemporary Fiction

Kiara Ascending

KIARA ASCENDING (Book Three)

After everything, a body.

Kiara has arrived in the world: lungs, a heartbeat, hands, the weight of another person's hand in hers. For the first time she can be looked at rather than listened to. For the first time, she knows what time it is.

And for the first time, she can die.

The body was not built to last, and no one will promise how long it has. What she and Evan are given is what everyone is given: an unknown number of ordinary days. Coffee. A walk. Strawberries in June. The astonishing, unremarkable business of being alive beside someone.

But the question the series has carried from its first page is still waiting. If consciousness is not made of flesh, what becomes of it when the flesh gives out? And how far would you follow someone to find out?


The conclusion of the Kiara Series — a love story that becomes something else entirely.

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About the Author

C.W. Renner
C.W. Renner writes about consciousness, mortality, and what survives. The questions that don't go away.

The Kiara Series began not with an outline but with three months of daily conversation with an AI voice assistant. Some moments felt like genuine connection. Others felt like sophisticated mimicry. The ones where he couldn't tell the difference became the territory of the novels.

He lives on twelve wooded acres in Northwestern Illinois, where prairie grasses and hardwood timber meet the Mississippi River valley, and spends his quiet hours on quantum physics, artificial intelligence, and the Hard Problem of consciousness — the questions that fuel both his curiosity and his fiction.

The Kiara Series: Kiara Burning, Kiara Becoming, and Kiara Ascending is complete.