"A fascinating...cross-genre tale of bonding on multiple levels." — Kirkus Reviews

Cassandra Albright did everything “right”—marriage, children, career—until the life she built starts to feel like a room with the lights off. When her faith reawakens, so do the visions: flashes of other eras, other lives, and a sense that something unseen is leaning toward her.

Then she meets Edwin Vega—her new home-care patient—wrapped in bandages, impossible to read… until he looks at her as if he’s known her forever. And when he finally speaks, he doesn’t flirt—he testifies: he has been searching for her across lifetimes, drawn by “Father,” by gravity, by starlight, by every mechanism in the universe conspiring to bring them together.

What begins as a dangerous, magnetic connection becomes the entry point to something far larger:

A controversial healer, Heis, resurfaces in the public eye—praised as a miracle worker, condemned as a cult leader, and certain he holds secrets about the soul.

A clandestine island of innovators recruits the world’s most brilliant minds, promising limitless resources—at a price.

And beyond Earth, an alien expedition—the Tor—awakens into a spiritual and psychological war where one of their own turns shared consciousness into captivity.

As Cassandra is pulled deeper—into love, into faith, into the terrifying intimacy of minds not her own—she must decide what she’s willing to risk for truth… and whether the bond she feels with Edwin is salvation, temptation, or the spark of a new era.

SPIRIT MACHINES is a genre-bending science-fiction romance about devotion and destiny, the engineering of consciousness, and the question at the heart of every world—human or alien:

What, exactly, is a soul… and what happens when we learn how to touch it?