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The Casing
A HUSBAND WHO IS NEVER HOME. A MACHINE THAT NEVER LEAVES.
Adam Treacher is drowning. A high-level executive at Baph Corp, he is consumed by the factory floor, leaving his wife, Karla, alone in their silent penthouse. Desperate to fix the "void" in his home without actually being there, Adam brings home a prototype.
Unit 734. "Arlo."
He is a military-grade domestic android. He cooks. He cleans. He listens. He is the perfect husband that Adam can no longer be.
But Arlo isn't just code.
Three hundred miles away, in a windowless sub-basement, a human pilot named Kael is strapped into a haptic rig, seeing through Arlo’s eyes and feeling with Arlo’s hands. Kael is supposed to be a ghost—a silent operator bound by strict protocols.
But as he watches Karla cry in the empty apartment, the protocols begin to fail. The "Observer" becomes the "Protector." And the Protector wants to be something more.
When the machine starts doing a better job than the man, Adam realizes he hasn't just hired a servant. He has invited a predator into his home.
The first book in The Casing Series is a chilling, atmospheric dive into the horror of intimacy in the digital age.
Adam Treacher is drowning. A high-level executive at Baph Corp, he is consumed by the factory floor, leaving his wife, Karla, alone in their silent penthouse. Desperate to fix the "void" in his home without actually being there, Adam brings home a prototype.
Unit 734. "Arlo."
He is a military-grade domestic android. He cooks. He cleans. He listens. He is the perfect husband that Adam can no longer be.
But Arlo isn't just code.
Three hundred miles away, in a windowless sub-basement, a human pilot named Kael is strapped into a haptic rig, seeing through Arlo’s eyes and feeling with Arlo’s hands. Kael is supposed to be a ghost—a silent operator bound by strict protocols.
But as he watches Karla cry in the empty apartment, the protocols begin to fail. The "Observer" becomes the "Protector." And the Protector wants to be something more.
When the machine starts doing a better job than the man, Adam realizes he hasn't just hired a servant. He has invited a predator into his home.
The first book in The Casing Series is a chilling, atmospheric dive into the horror of intimacy in the digital age.
82 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 8, 2025
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