HER EXISTENCE IS A GLITCH. HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN DEBUG THE SYSTEM. Kai lives byte by byte, a datacourier navigating the neon-drenched gutters of Neo-Veridian. Survival is the code. Then she manifests – Silica, a legendary phantom hacker whispered about in the darkest corners of the net. Suddenly, she's real, hunted, and impossibly captivating. She's pure datawrapped in flesh and fire, holding secrets that could shatter the mega-corps bleeding the city dry. Guarding her means becoming ghost number two, plunging into a cyberpunk underworld of chrome killers and digital shadows. The sparksbetween them aren't just static; they're a dangerous new protocol rewriting Kai's entire world. He came for the creds, but now, in this dystopian city of steel and lies, protecting the woman who might be more machine than human is the only mission that matters. Even if it means crashing his own system for good.