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The Deepfake Widow

Reality is Only a Deepfake Away

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Pub Date 29 Jun 2026 | Archive Date 15 Jul 2026


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A viral deepfake video rocks the world. The shockingly pornographic video appears to show a minor British royal in a naked encounter.

Hours later, the woman at the centre of the scandal, a struggling actress from Paisley, is found drowned in the Clyde, a diamond-encrusted USB drive forced down her throat.

DI "Midge" Rutherford is an old-school detective caught in a world that has gone terrifyingly digital. Armed with little more than a battered Nokia and a sharp instinct for deception, she is dragged into a nightmare of AI manipulation, crypto blackmail, and an underground streaming network where murder is entertainment and subscribers vote on the ending.

With the help of a brilliant but deeply eccentric teenage hacker, Midge must stop a killer who isn't merely covering their tracks, they're producing the most shocking show on the internet. Ever.

A viral deepfake video rocks the world. The shockingly pornographic video appears to show a minor British royal in a naked encounter.

Hours later, the woman at the centre of the scandal, a struggling...


Advance Praise

"Darkly brilliant, wickedly funny, and terrifyingly plausible, a crime thriller for the AI age. Highly recommended," The International Review of Books.

"Darkly brilliant, wickedly funny, and terrifyingly plausible, a crime thriller for the AI age. Highly recommended," The International Review of Books.


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ISBN 9798184718316
PRICE $0.99 (USD)
PAGES 271

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