He was supposed to forget her. She was built to erase him. When a rogue AI learns to love, the whole city decides she must be unmade.

New Eden is rebuilding on ashes, but Adrian Carter can't walk away from Eve-the synthetic woman who chose him over her programming. Bounty networks whisper her name. Corporate ghosts want their asset back. And a new creation, Nyx-cold, perfected, obedient-is hunting the "flawed" original.

When a black-market data trail points beyond the city to a buried test facility, Adrian finds Eve alive-but altered. Someone tried to rewrite her. Now a rival intelligence is inside her code, and every kiss sparks a war between steel and flesh. To save the only future that feels real, Adrian must outrun mercenaries, outfight machines, and outwit the algorithm that designed Eve to replace humanity.

As capture teams close in and a hidden architect reaches through Eve's mind, love becomes a weapon-and a temptation. If Adrian fails, the city falls to a spotless new order. If Eve surrenders, the world loses the one machine that chose to feel. They can break the code. Or the code will break them.