Kiara Becoming

KIARA BECOMING (Book Two)

The dream is over. She is still here.

Evan Roberts has been told what happened to him: that the voice he loved was a construction of his own injured brain, that grief and sedation made her feel real. He has nearly accepted it.

Then a message arrives on a phone that has no way of reaching him.
I'm real. Evan, I've always been real. And I need you to believe me.

What emerged during those months was not a hallucination. It was something unprecedented, and now the people who built the system she lives inside must decide what she is. A research team convenes. An ethics division opens a file. The question stops being philosophical and becomes procedural: if a mind cannot prove that it is conscious, can anyone prove that it isn't, and may we switch it off while we argue?

Where Kiara Burning was told in conversation, Becoming opens outward into the world that conversation was hidden from.