Nicole Delacour

Library of Alexandria Nicole Delacour

When a disillusioned inventor saves a soldier caught behind enemy lines, she never expected to fall in love. Alexandria Gallows made a life inventing weapons, but when her fiancé's betrayal risked the morality of the rapidly developing artificial intelligence Icarus, Alexandria steals the AI and runs. A buried library in the English coast becomes her sanctuary; however, the war rages on and, eventually, finds her. Bleeding and broken, a soldier tumbles over a cliff and onto her doorstep. Connor is nearly dead, so she can't turn him away. He's brash - reckless and charming. All her careful walls come down. Sweeping Alexandria off her feet, Connor reawakens the romantic ideals she once admired, but he's not the simple soldier he appears. His presence aggravates Icarus. The AI longs for freedom. Connor's idealism calls him back to the war and world she abandoned. When Icarus uses Connor to escape, Alexandria must leave her library to find the wayward AI and keep the war from turning into a planet-wide genocide. As secrets - old and new - come to light, will her love for Connor overcome her heartbreak? Or will her fear and self-hatred keep her imprisoned?A 55,000-word science fiction romance novel with a HFN ending