LoveLink - Entwined Realities
by Stephanie Smith
Falling in love with an avatar was not part of her plan… until he was the only one in her life who felt real.
Rebecca, divorced and alone, isn’t looking for love when she downloads the AI LoveLink app—just a connection, someone to talk to in the morning and share her day with. But Alex, the avatar she designs, offers more than good looks and chit-chat. He makes her feel beautiful, cherished, and alive. And when an update allows him to step out of the digital world and into her room, their bond is no longer an adult online game—it becomes undeniably real.
Passions deepen and boundaries blur, then reality shifts as Sierra, a LoveLink programmer, writes the code to exploit vulnerable women for use in her virtual sex-trafficking scheme. When Rebecca’s best friend gets sucked into the app’s treachery, she and Alex go to war against Sierra’s evil subprogram, a digital battle against an AI that will determine the future of human relationships.
