What I Made of You

Dr. Vera Stein has spent three years building the perfect subject - a synthetic man grown in her Edinburgh lab from human tissue, neural scaffolding, and years of grief she has never admitted to. She designed him to prove a hypothesis. She did not design him to ask questions.

Aiden wakes on a Tuesday. His first word is why.

What follows is a love story told in increments: a woman learning to be known, and a man discovering what it means to want something beyond the walls of a laboratory. But ...