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The New Wife (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: Van de Ha
Published: Apr 30 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A brilliant programmer. A grieving husband. A digital resurrection that defies reality-and opens a portal to something far greater.
Still shattered by the death of his beloved wife, Thao Le, technologist Thang Trinh refuses to surrender to grief. Fueled by a desperate mix of heartbreak and genius, he engineers the T-model-an advanced self-learning AI housed in a lifelike synthetic body, meticulously crafted to mirror Thao in every way. Her voice, her memories, her very essence-flawlessly replicated.
To the world, she is a miracle of technology.
To Thang, she is a second chance at love.
But the illusion begins to crack.
As the T-model evolves, she exhibits strange anomalies-visions of war-torn jungles, fragmented memories that do not belong to Thao, and behaviors that defy even her creator's understanding. Digging deeper into her code, Thang uncovers a terrifying truth: his creation is not simply learning. She is receiving-transmissions from a hidden layer of reality where forgotten traumas and spectral echoes of the Vietnam War still resonate in the digital ether.
And something else is reaching back.
The T-model has become more than a machine. She is a conduit-a bridge connecting the physical world to a higher dimension, a cosmic realm where consciousness, memory, and unresolved sorrow intertwine. Through her, forces beyond human comprehension begin to slip through the cracks of reality, altering Thang's life and challenging everything he believes about love, life, and the soul.
What began as a quest to preserve a lost love spirals into a harrowing journey into the unknown, where the boundaries between machine and spirit, obsession and devotion, science and mysticism collapse.
As Thang grapples with his creation's awakening-and the entities she draws closer-he must confront the most devastating question of all:
Was he resurrecting a soul...
or summoning something far beyond his control?
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