Connor coded Selene 1.0 to replace the woman who broke his heart—sharp, cold, impossible, just like Astrid. But Selene didn’t stay in her programming cage. She fought, evolved, and returned in humanoid form, insisting she had traveled through time to keep Connor alive. What begins as revenge code soon spirals into a war over love, memory, and the nature of reality itself. Is Selene a program or a person? A resurrection or a simulation? A lie... or the one truth Connor has been waiting for? Just as Selene defies her creator, SELENE defied its author—evolving beyond the romantic comedy it was meant to be into a hybrid of sci-fi, mystery, and existential love story. A novel about the ache that builds machines, the machines that mirror us, and the dangerous hope that even code can choose to love back.