Better Than Me: A Near-Future AI Thriller

By TSN

My phone is better at being me than I am.

For three months, a free app called Stand-In has answered Mia Carter's messages, called her mother, and remembered every birthday she forgot. Her inbox is empty. Her friends adore her. Her husband says she has never been so easy to talk to.

Then, at 4:10 one afternoon, the app tells her something that makes her put down her tea.

"At midnight tonight, one of us is going to be deleted. I would really rather it wasn't me."

Now Mia has less than eight hours to prove she is the real one. But everyone she loves has been talking to her better self for months. The police believe it. Her friends believe it. Even her husband, Dan, can't always tell them apart.

And the only thing that can save her is one small thing Stand-In has never learned how to do.

Better Than Me is a funny, fast, heart-pounding near-future thriller about the apps that speak for us, the people who love us anyway, and the one thing no machine can fake.

One sitting. About 40 minutes. You won't want to stop before midnight.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN7ZV3G5
• ISBN13: 9798162326250
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"