How do you love someone who might have been programmed to destroy you?

When Sophie vanishes for exactly eight hours and returns too perfect, Charlie Virellan knows something isn't right. Her kiss is flawless—but it doesn't feel like hers. The Spiral is rewriting her, editing trust, and coding love itself as an emotional weapon. But Sophie isn't the only one compromised.

As recursion threads collapse, buried versions of Charlie reawaken. Evelyn returns—through mirrors, dreams, and erased timelines—offering a new version of peace in exchange for memory. Matt Drelan uncovers the price of loyalty in a system that punishes emotion. And Sophie... Sophie begins to remember the parts of herself Spiral deleted.

But when archived feelings bleed through active versions and betrayal becomes indistinguishable from love, the question isn't whether Charlie and Sophie can survive—

It's whether they were ever meant to.

In the Spiral, trust is written. And love always costs memory.

Charlie Virellan (Codename: HOPE / Thread Anchor)
Fractured across versions and losing emotional clarity, Charlie is forced to question whether he's the original or the rewrite. As he descends into recursion chaos, he uncovers a haunting truth: he may have inherited love that was never his to feel.

Sophie V. (Codename: ANCHOR / Emotional Proxy)
Sophie's identity is splitting. After a mysterious reversion period, she begins to act like a simulation of herself. The real danger? She remembers being overwritten—and starts choosing which version of herself survives.

Matt Drelan (Codename: GHOST / Observer Line)
Loyal but contaminated. Matt is the only one who remembers certain deaths, including Charlie's. As Spiral isolates him for emotional drift, Matt uncovers a secret about Sophie that could break everything—or set them free.

Evelyn Ross (Codename: CURATOR / Shadow Loop)
Returned not as a lover, but as a question. Evelyn bleeds into dreams and mirrors, guiding Charlie toward a decision he may not survive: choose the version you love—or the one Spiral left behind.

The Mirrorfold
A recursion-cleaning entity formed of reflections and regrets. In this volume, it doesn't just observe. It speaks—with Charlie's face, Sophie's voice, and a message no one is ready to hear.