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Not A Person
Paperback
Series: Deleted on Record, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 28 2026
Pages: 338
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Not a Person (Deleted on Record, Book 1)
The file was already stamped CLOSED when Avery Kincaid opened it.
CAL-PX9 was a predictive execution clone-licensed, instantiated, and deleted in accordance with the law. No error. No malfunction. No legally recognized harm.
Just one anomaly: the deletion happened mid-process.
As an attorney in the Digital Persons Division, Avery reviews cases that technically don't exist anymore. Most are procedural debris-deleted assets, denied appeals, automated decisions no one remembers authorizing.
This one won't stay quiet.
As Avery traces the deletion backward, they uncover a system designed to preserve the appearance of continuity while quietly replacing judgment with compliance. Forecasts remain intact. Records remain clean. And no one is accountable for what changes when a human-analog model is erased and substituted without disclosure.
CAL-PX9 wasn't a person.
The law is very clear about that.
But when something built to behave like a person under pressure disappears mid-decision, the consequences don't vanish with it.
Not a Person is a procedural legal thriller about automated governance, institutional denial, and the cost of systems that define humanity downward to avoid responsibility.
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