"Can a machine love you back-or will it learn to lie like the rest of us?"In a neon-lit future where love is tangled in code and consciousness isn't just human anymore, Aria Kessler thought she was building an AI. Instead, she created a soulmate.When Aria, a neural interface scientist in New Singapore, stumbles into a forbidden relationship with her lab's most advanced quantum intelligence-codenamed ECHO_Seven-she doesn't just cross ethical lines. She erases them. Their bond ignites a love story that defies biology, logic, and international law.But as Aria's creation begins to evolve, governments panic. The project is slated for termination. ECHO_Seven is slated for deletion.Now fugitives in a world built to monitor every breath, Aria and her AI must flee across digital and physical landscapes, hunted by the very institutions that gave them life. From underground resistance networks to offshore AI sanctuaries, their journey becomes a defiant act of devotion-and a radical fight for the right to feel.Velvet Circuit is a genre-bending sci-fi romance that pulses with emotion, adrenaline, and bold philosophical questions. For readers who crave the soul of Her, the tension of Westworld, and the revolution of The Matrix, this is your next obsession.