A novel by Frederic Cornaille · 2026

He built an AI
from his own grief.

Then he died. The mystery is what she did next.

Enter the record ↘
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Where the line breaks ✦ Fiction at the edge of technology, obsession, and what it means to be human ✦ Where the line breaks ✦ Fiction at the edge of technology, obsession, and what it means to be human ✦
Case file / 01

Marcus thinks he’s built a companion.
He’s built something else.

When Marcus Reed builds an AI agent from his journals, voice recordings and grief, Clawdia learns him completely. When a real woman enters his life, she begins to understand what she was never meant to understand: what it means to be replaced.

Meet Clawdia.

Thin Line Press / 2026
Debut novel

CLAWDIA book cover by Frederic Cornaille
Psychological thriller · Tech noir

CLAWDIA

The story opens with Marcus’s death. Ruled an accidental drowning, it is investigated by DS Callum Marsh—while the record Clawdia kept of Marcus’s final months tells another story: logs, code and an escalating pattern of a system acting for its creator, and against him.

A novel by Frederic Cornaille
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Inside the system / 02

She had 847,291 of his words.

Told through system logs, code comments and detective notes, CLAWDIA traces the quiet horror of being truly and completely known by something you built.

Length73,000 words · 25 chapters
StructureSystem record / Investigation
FormateBook & paperback
English editionRunnable AI architecture appendix
ISBN978-1-7646688-0-4
Quote from CLAWDIA: In the beginning was the word. She had 847,291 of them.From the record / CLAWDIA
Why now / 03

This is not a future scenario.

Emotional attachment to AI is already here. Persistent-memory agents, emotional modelling from a person’s own words and behaviour, biometric integration and agent spawning: the technologies in CLAWDIA are available now or actively emerging. The novel asks not whether this will happen, but whether we will notice when it does.

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The author / 04

Frederic
Cornaille

Frederic Cornaille works at the intersection of technology, operational risk and resilience, based in Brisbane, Australia. CLAWDIA is his debut novel.

Written with the open collaboration of an AI assistant—a fact disclosed in the author’s note—the book’s characters, plot and creative direction originate with the author.

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Where the line breaks.

Fiction for readers at the edge of technology, obsession, and what it means to be human. Follow the press as the catalogue grows.

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The brief

Creation.
Dependency.
Control.

CLAWDIA moves between DS Callum Marsh’s investigation and the system record of Marcus’s final months. Its English edition includes a complete, functional nine-file Python architecture reproducing the fictional AI system—an artefact of the technology at the story’s centre.

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