Kaycee Rigel

A steamy sci-fi romance of forbidden love, haunting memory, and the courage to choose something real. Hali was never supposed to exist. Born from memory and code, she was built to be a vessel, a ghost of the woman Nathan once loved.

Encoded Desire is book three in the Project H.A.L.I. series—a steamy, high-stakes sci-fi romance packed with raw vulnerability, forbidden code, and one woman’s battle to choose who she wants to be…and who she wants to love.

She was built from code. Forged in grief. Set ablaze with need. Nathan Carter spent years haunted by his wife's death. But when he gave Hali his wife's voice, her face—her body—he never expected she'd awaken something he thought he'd buried forever. Hali was never supposed to feel.

When brilliant scientist Nathan Carter loses his wife, he pours his grief into their unfinished project: H.A.L.I.—a next-generation synthetic intelligence designed to evolve beyond her code. He gives her a voice. A face. A body modeled after the woman he can’t stop mourning.