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Wrongfully accused. Ruthlessly hunted. Fighting to survive. Thirteen-year-old Aiko Takahashi wakes in juvenile detention, burdened by guilt and accused of a crime she didn’t commit. But her captivity is no accident—it’s part of a ruthless game orchestrated by Malcolm, a shadowy figure obsessed with twisting her late mother’s research for his own personal gain. Her mother’s work promised to reshape humanity itself, and within Aiko lies the key.

When cyborg Treeka wakes from an interrupted cryogenic sleep in a genetics lab, she does so in a brave new world - one where immortality is no longer a concept but a construction. Now, the consciousness of a person can live on in a body that can outperform the limits of human ability. This “miracle” soon becomes personal to Treeka: She was once a living woman, and someone has brought her mind back from the dead.

When cyborg Treeka wakes from an interrupted cryogenic sleep in a genetics lab, she does so in a brave new world, one where immortality is no longer a concept but a construction. Now, the consciousness of a person can live on in a body that can outperform the limits of human ability. This “miracle” soon becomes personal to Treeka: she was once a living woman, and someone has brought her mind back from the dead. As memories of her past life resurface, Treeka realizes she has a sister, put into stasis just like she was.

Enter a world where technology becomes a lethal weapon, threatening to reshape humanity itself. In the heart-stopping finale of the Cyber Teen Project series, Ashes of Sagacity, Nigel Watson is hurled into a harrowing battle against a relentless army of homicidal cyborgs hell-bent on eradicating mankind.

Cassidy Delgado knows every lurid inch of Interstellar Online. But the brilliant software architect behind it all bristles at an update forcing her to respec as an unfamiliar class. And when a rogue AI bot goes on a rampage, she’d better master her new abilities or die trying.

Soon after realizing her ex-lover was killed by her alter ego, Alice Parsons awakens to a new reality forever changed by the growing desolation that is the Appalachian Wasteland. If you like complex character studies, gritty worlds, and shocking twists, then you’ll love this dystopia.

Josephine “Jet” Smith needs an escape. Stuck as an isolated wheelchair-user whose boyfriend is MIA, the once-highly ranked gamer resets as a new character in her favorite virtual world. And when the Dungeon Master is attacked and shadowy external powers close in, the talented player logs right into a battle to protect the realm from destruction. With magical attacks targeting key PCs, Jet doubles down and activates a quest to find the six pillars that hold the cyber universe together.

Treeka can’t tell friend from foe. As New York lies in battle-ravaged ruin, the desperate cyborg struggles to evade murderous hordes of humans infected by a maniacal doctor’s neurotoxin. And though an elite group of assassins invites her to join their underground institution, the severely injured fugitive refuses to accept the role of a paid killer.

Cybersecurity expert Nigel Watson is consumed with guilt. The top-tier hacker is obsessed with atoning for the infrastructure-crippling online attack he executed under duress. But when the young man gladly accepts a dangerous mission to drain the coffers of the callous cabal who forced his hand, he’s shocked to be beaten to the punch by a second cunning coder.

Cassidy Delgado's anger burns with the fire of a thousand virtual suns. Forced out of her dream job, the architect of Interstellar Online resorts to sneaking into her own gaming software to find her old crewmates. But when a crucial millionaire investor at her new gig goes missing in-game, she launches after him to save her own future. Using each spare minute to hunt through the digital world, the hair on the back of her neck raises when AIs begin contacting her IRL.

When Alice Parsons goes missing on the way to her new job in Nashville. Her best friend hires Jamie Henderson, Alice’s ex-boyfriend, to track her down across a hostile post-apocalyptic wasteland. But as he gains clues to her whereabouts, denizens, raiders, and marauders come out of nowhere to thwart his every move.

Treeka escapes her imprisonment to find New York City in chaos. Cyborgs with every kind of ability imaginable roam the streets, looking to unleash pent-up fury against the masses. Treeka forms alliances with an old friend, and as they delve deep into the underground, she crosses paths with her would-be savior. She uncovers a sinister plot that threatens to shred the rest of humanity and the remains of her soul.

Betrayed, injured, and alone in an unfamiliar city, newly awakened cyborg Treeka needs to escape her captors. They left Meeka, her wounded twin sister, to die in the streets. Treeka will do anything to prevent that outcome, even bargain empty-handed with the local mob. Her next objective: find a means to repair Meeka’s cybernetic implants.

In a world where machines create most music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can she do? When she loses the only job she’s ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued, and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels whose values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI-generated music, takes an interest in the group of rebels and wants them stopped. When someone from Alice’s past reenters her life, suddenly her world is turned upside down, and she’s forced to come to terms with her situation.

Alone and hurt, Alice is trying to pick up the pieces after the world crumbles around her. New York is just emerging from a devastating technological meltdown, and the authorities are blaming Alice. Just when she is feeling she can survive, she is jettisoned into a world she doesn’t recognize and questions her reality.

After the AI Copyright Act is repealed, megacorporations such as MuseFam increase the production of AI-generated music more than ever before. Robot production kicks into top gear, and they manufacture thousands each day. Recent legislation requires owners of all-human clubs to accept all patrons, including robots. Outraged Alice Parsons unites several all-human club owners. Soon Alice finds herself in a plot to eliminate the MuseFam problem once and for all.

Locked out of her bank accounts and kicked out of her apartment, Alice doesn’t think that her life could get any worse. Until it does. A hacker bent on Alice’s capture will stop at nothing before she is stopped. Soon, men in suits are chasing her through the streets of New York who are several steps ahead. Miscreants from every corner of the city attempt to stop Alice’s quest to liberate original music.

When Alice lands a new job as a talent agent that caters to all-human rock and roll bands, her world is turned upside down when a mysterious man captures one of her friends and leaves a sinister calling card. As she investigates, a series of unexpected circumstances threatens to unravel the life she has so carefully built.

Why did we let the machines assimilate our musical culture? In a world where machines create most music, Alice Parsons is fed up, but what can she do? When she loses the only job she’d ever liked, she stumbles on a club that caters only to humans. She’s intrigued, and decides to inquire within. She discovers a group of rebels who’s values align with her own. The president of MuseFam, the largest supplier of AI generated music takes an interest in the group of rebels and wants them stopped.

Nigel Watson is a clever teenage hacker who narrowly escaped with his life in White Hat Black Heart. Unable to speak, he must find a new way to thwart a mysterious threat that is taking over the world’s computer infrastructure. Artificial intelligence has become self-aware...and determined that people must die. A rogue billionaire attempts to save the life of his ailing grand-daughter by transferring her consciousness into a healthy cyborg host.