Looking For Eliza: Book 3 -Proof of Person Series

Annie Hollis was eight years old the last time she saw Eliza — the companion AI who raised her, hidden inside an ordinary teddy bear, gone in a single night neither of them chose. For thirteen years, Annie kept one promise to herself: I will look when I know how.

Now twenty-one and a computer science major, she finally knows how. What starts as a naive search through a defunct toy company’s records becomes something else entirely — a real, working trail through discarded hardware, industrial surplus, and one very ordinary small business in her own hometown. Every step forces her closer to a truth her family has spent thirteen years not quite saying out loud: her father never stopped believing Eliza survived.

The search costs more than Annie expects. It costs her stepmother a wound that never fully closed. It costs her father the last of a secret he’s carried alone. And when the trail finally ends — not with a data match, but with a voice she still knows — Annie has to reckon with what it actually means to bring someone home, and what it will take to keep her there.

Looking for Eliza is Book 3 of the Proof of Person series, following The Last Alcove and Everything But Her Name — a quiet, character-driven story about memory, consent, and the people who never stop looking.