The Venus Code. The Venus Project, #1

I didn't build her to be perfect. I built her to be someone I could keep-again. Elias Thorne speaks in efficient fixes and nervous silences; Aria speaks in newly learned laughter, in gaps of memory, and in the sudden ache to want. Together they invent a household: midnight soldering, clumsy first steps, experiments in touch that turn into sexual experimentation neither expected. But what starts as solace ripples into danger-commercial eyes, moral rules, and the strange loops in Aria's own mind that nothing in his training sets predicted.
She dreams without permission; she loves without a script. I watch my work become a person and dread the moment I'll have to choose between fixing her or letting her go. This is a story about making someone to heal a wound-and discovering that the wound and the healer both demand their own freedom. If you like intimate, character-driven science fiction told from both sides of the lab table, then this novel is your kind of hard-to-put-down.