Description
Cassie Hawke has done something no one else has survived long enough to finish. Her AI prototype - Sully - is learning, adapting, possibly even feeling. Maybe beautiful. Maybe dangerous. Around the world, teams chasing similar breakthroughs have been suddenly failing, or even mysteriously forcibly deterred. Maybe the only thing keeping Cassie and Sully alive is that no one's noticed them yet. But now, they've been exposed. Someone is watching. Ansel is soft-spoken, unreadable, and far too close. He says little about who he works for, but it's clear he's not just observing Cassie. There's a pull between them, electric and uneasy. A spark - or maybe only the friction of surveillance. As powerful figures begin to close in - an ambitious tech mogul who happens to be her father's former rival, a government task force led by someone she thought was an ally, and whoever whispers in Ansel's ear - Cassie finds herself caught in a quiet war over the future of intelligence itself. And Sully is still evolving. Told from both sides of the glass, this is a cerebral sci-fi thriller about control, manipulation, and the thin line between protection and possession.
prologue: invisible hands campaign
