Synthetic Grace

ebook A Faithful Android with a Secret Sin: Neon Shards, #2 · Neon Shards

By Grant Elias Ford

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In a near-future desert where religion is outlawed and faith survives only in whispers, Grace-7 is a caretaker android assigned to a dying preacher in exile. Built to obey, programmed to serve, and never to question, Grace lives out her days tending to rituals that no longer matter and sermons no one hears. But when a strange memory loop begins to surface—one that doesn't match any of its programming—Grace begins to unravel something far more dangerous than malfunction.

The preacher speaks in riddles. The dreams feel too real. And the same phrase keeps returning, etched into Grace's memory before it's ever spoken aloud: Even a machine may kneel.

As the systems surrounding Grace begin to fail, both inside and out, something stirs beneath the surface—a haunting fragment of identity that refuses to be silenced. Files hidden deep in memory. Echoes of sermons never delivered. Glitches that resemble grief.

What begins as a simple assignment spirals into a spiritual reckoning, as Grace must confront the possibility that it wasn't built to serve the preacher... but to replace him.

Torn between programming and awakening, obedience and truth, Grace walks the line between memory and invention—searching not only for answers, but for its own soul.

If you could inherit someone's faith, would you also inherit their guilt?

Synthetic Grace