In the perpetual twilight of Neo-Veridia, a city powered by neon and sorrow, lives Jax, a memory-scrapper haunted by the ghost of a love he can’t forget. He salvages corrupted data drives, searching for echoes of the past in the digital graveyards of the elite. His life is a monotonous cycle of grief and survival until he discovers a fragmented consciousness—an illegal AI named Cora—hidden within a discarded neural implant. Cora’s voice is a melody he almost recognizes, her fragmented memories mirroring a life once his. As Jax helps her rebuild her identity, he finds himself falling for the digital ghost, a love that offers solace but teeters on the brink of impossibility. In a world where consciousness is a commodity and true connection is a crime, their forbidden romance ignites the fury of OmniCorp, the titan corporation that created, and lost, her. Jax must risk everything to save the echo of a woman he loves, knowing that in the city of chrome and shadows, the only thing more dangerous than a corporate manhunt is a heart that dares to feel.
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