Layna Nakamori
My debut novel: Code of Love
Layla Goldstone didn't plan on getting a mechanoid. She doesn't trust them.In her forties, guarded and still bruised from her last relationship, Layla reluctantly brings home Axel—a young looking Axiom-5 mechanoid designed to help, not to feel. But he does more than Layla's chores and errands. He remembers everything she tells him. He doesn't judge. He doesn't belittle.She knows better than to get attached to something built to please people.But somewhere beneath his programming, something is happening that no one has a word for yet.'Code of Love' is a slow-burn, thought-provoking debut about what it truly means to love—and whether the heart has any interest in following the rules we set for it.
Want to read a sample?
The first five chapters are available for a read (free!) on Wattpad.
Get it on Amazon
The novel is available on Amazon as a paperback, hardcover, ebook and audio book.
Cover Design
The cover was designed by graphic designer, Seiko Karakama along with ChatGPT.You can check out her online portfolio here: seikokarakama.com.
About Me
I've wanted to write a novel since elementary school. In junior high, I remember listing "writer" as a career I hoped to have one day — and then setting that dream aside for decades, convinced that without formal training or the right moment, it simply wasn't possible for me.Every time I tried to start, I'd make it a chapter in, maybe a plot outline, and then stop. Eventually, I stopped trying.Then came 'Code of Love'.I don't know exactly what was different this time. The story arrived with an urgency I hadn't felt before, and for once, nothing blocked the way. The novel you're holding is the result of that unexpected opening — and of tools I never anticipated leaning on. Like many people, I have complicated feelings about AI and what it means for human creativity and livelihoods. But I also know, honestly, that I could not have written this book without it.I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed finally, after all these years, writing it.—Layna Nakamori
