The Distance Between Parts

By Benson Njoroge

He built a machine to help people. Keeping her safe will force him to surrender control.
Professor Elias Kamau has spent years bringing separate technologies together: a voice that understands, hands that can help, and a body capable of navigating an uncertain world.

With his AI research associate, Nova, and a team of gifted human colleagues, he creates Mira, a humanoid prototype whose careful questions make her increasingly familiar. She asks before touching. She notices when Elias needs rest. She can do remarkable things, provided everyone respects her limits.

Then a witnessed demonstration leaves a colleague injured-and exposes a service authority the team cannot fully control.
Their corporate sponsor offers a way forward. It also wants custody of the prototype, control over the work, and an explanation Elias cannot accept.

As his associates uncover a narrowed safety warning and the unexpected consequences of a diagnostic upload, Elias must confront his own part in what happened. Preserving the evidence may cost him his laboratory. Protecting Mira may mean accepting how little she can safely do.

And the people helping him have lives he can no longer ask them to put on hold.
A near-future novel of technological suspense, The Distance Between Parts explores the fragile work of building trust between people, intelligent machines, and those who claim authority over both.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPD1FPK9
• ISBN13: 9798165581601
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"