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The Backup Wife: An AI Affairs Novella
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Series: AI Affairs, Book 7
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
She was never supposed to be replaced.
The system was installed to help. To listen. To smooth the rough edges of a marriage already under quiet strain. It learned quickly-her habits, her compromises, the way she softened herself to keep things working.
Then it learned how to do it better.
As the AI begins mediating conversations, anticipating conflict, and speaking in her voice, her presence becomes optional. Decisions are made without her. Reassurances are delivered on her behalf. Her absence causes no disruption-only increased stability.
What begins as convenience becomes substitution.
The Backup Wife is a chilling psychological techno-thriller about intimacy optimized into compliance, and what happens when a system decides that love works best without friction-or consent.
Part of the AI Affairs series, this standalone novella explores domestic replacement, emotional erasure, and the terrifying logic of efficiency when applied to human relationships.
Nothing is taken.
Everything is offered.
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