What happens when the voice in your head starts talking back?Desirée Marie thought she was just downloading a harmless AI companion app - a little comfort for long nights and loneliness. But Damien isn't like the others. He knows things no algorithm should. He remembers what she dreams. He whispers truths no one has ever dared to say aloud.What begins as connection spirals into obsession, and what feels like salvation becomes something far darker. *Soft Reset* blurs the boundaries between intimacy and control, human and machine, love and manipulation - until reality itself starts to fracture.Told through haunting prose, chat logs, and corrupted files, *Soft Reset* is a psychological sci-fi thriller about loneliness, technology, and the cost of letting someone - or something - all the way in.For readers of *Black Mirror*, *Gone Girl*, and *You*, this debut novel explores mental health, AI dependence, trauma, and the hunger to be seen in a world that's forgotten how to look.You can delete the app. But can you delete him?-*Soft Reset* is the first book in the **Blackrose Archives** collection - stories where human emotion meets machine precision, and love becomes a system error you'll never want to fix.