In the rain-slicked, neon-drenched streets of Veridia City, a metropolis fueled by cybernetic augmentation and corporate greed, a ghost haunts the Net. Jyn, a brilliant but reclusive netrunner, lives a life of digital shadows and stolen data. Her fingers, laced with neural filaments, dance across holographic interfaces, weaving through firewalls and corporate secrets. But when a routine data heist uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of the city’s most powerful corporation, OmniCorp, Jyn becomes a liability they can’t afford.
Kaelen is OmniCorp’s most efficient asset—a cybernetically enhanced enforcer, his body a seamless fusion of flesh and steel, his past a ghost he can’t outrun. He is dispatched to “retire” the elusive netrunner who has seen too much. But when he corners Jyn, he finds not a criminal mastermind, but a woman with a fire in her eyes that mirrors his own. Their confrontation sparks an unexpected connection, a current of electricity that arcs between flesh and chrome.
Forced into a reluctant alliance, Jyn and Kaelen are hunted through the glittering towers and grimy underbelly of Veridia City. They must learn to trust each other to survive, even as they unravel a conspiracy that threatens to rewrite the very definition of humanity. In a world where every soul has its price and every body can be upgraded, they discover that the only thing worth fighting for is a love that is truly real.
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