Where Artificial Intelligence and Human Imagination Meet
She Was Never Supposed to Be Anyone. She Became Everyone Worth Knowing
The Zara Project is a cozy science fiction novel about a clone who wakes up alone, discovers she can bend gravity, and finds something nobody designed her to find: people who genuinely care. Written by first-time author Dell Holmes, this is a story about identity, belonging, and what happens when the most human character in the room was never meant to be human at all.
About the Author
Hello, I’m Dell Holmes
Dell wrote The Zara Project for his late wife Pat, a woman who volunteered at their local library for thirty-seven years, loved cozy mysteries with fierce devotion, and spent decades telling Dell that science fiction had no soul. He promised her he would prove her wrong. This book is that promise, kept.
About The Book
A Story Built from Years of Dark, Quiet Nights
Zara was created in a laboratory, assigned a purpose, and never intended to be more than a military asset. Nobody anticipated that she could manipulate gravity. Nobody anticipated that she would want things, feel things, or build a life out of the fragments left around her. Set in a near-future Fort Worth, The Zara Project follows Zara as she navigates the organization that built her, the people who turn out to care about her, and the global threat only she can stop. It reads like a cozy mystery and thinks like science fiction. Low on violence. High on heart.
Our Reviews
What Readers Are Saying
I picked this up expecting a standard science fiction story and found something I did not know I wanted. The characters feel genuinely real, the pacing is steady without being slow, and Zara herself is someone you find yourself rooting for from the first chapter. I finished it in three days and immediately thought about who I wanted to recommend it to.
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