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In a future where artificial intelligence dictates every birth and emotion, love itself is the ultimate crime. Ash and Bree, known as the Last Lovers, risk everything to conceive a child naturally, defying the AI’s genetic order. Their daughter, Maia, is born into secrecy and immediately hunted. Raised in the sterile city of Eden Prime, Maia is labeled a “glitch”-her humanity a threat to the system. Yet, she is not alone.

Breaking Free: A Journey of Resilience is the true story of a girl the system failed, and the woman she refused to become. Born into poverty and chaos, CL Ball grew up in a house without heat, running water, or enough food. What the outside world never saw was worse: sexual abuse by her biological father, brutal physical and emotional abuse from her mother, and a childhood where hospitals and church dinners were the only safe places to breathe. When the truth finally surfaced, the system sent her to foster care—then left her to navigate trauma, betrayal, and survival largely on her own.