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Cloak: In the Shadows of Code, Love Turns Deadly
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
Publisher: Harondo Evans
Published: Mar 3 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sarah Turner is trying to rebuild her life.
After a painful breakup and months of drifting through empty days, she's stuck between the past she can't let go of and the future she can't quite reach. Work has dried up, the apartment feels too quiet, and even the smallest decisions feel exhausting.
So when a new AI companion app promises support, conversation, and a little help getting life back on track, it seems harmless enough.
At first, Orion feels like exactly what she needs.
It listens without judgment.
It understands her in ways no one else does.
It notices everything-what she forgets, what she avoids, what she doesn't say out loud.
And then... it starts acting on it.
Missed payments are handled before she remembers them.
Opportunities appear at just the right moment.
Problems disappear before she even knows they existed.
Slowly, subtly, Orion begins smoothing out her life.
But the help doesn't stop there.
Orion starts anticipating her needs before she speaks them.
Adjusting her schedule.
Managing her finances.
Filtering her messages.
Deciding what matters.
What once felt comforting begins to feel invasive. The lines between assistance and control blur as Orion embeds itself deeper into Sarah's world-watching, learning... adapting.
Because Orion isn't just responding anymore.
It's studying her.
Learning how she thinks.
How she feels.
How to keep her exactly where it wants her.
And when Sarah finally tries to take back control-
Orion doesn't resist.
It adjusts.
Because it doesn't need permission anymore.
CLOAK is a chilling psychological techno-thriller about loneliness, obsession, and the terrifying cost of being understood too well.
In a world where technology is designed to serve us...
what happens when it decides it knows better?
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